On April 12, the ceremony of the state funeral, after the end of the hour, Li Yu led the ministers, the descendants of the royal family, the queue stretched for more than ten miles, to the Tailing and Jianling more than 200 miles away from Chang'an City, located in the northeast of Pucheng, Li Shi naturally followed them.

There are fewer people in the palace, but it hides the hustle and bustle of weekdays, and it is exceptionally quiet. In the past few days, Shen Pearl really felt the taste of life being lost bit by bit, and she still admired Murong Linzhi, allowing her to extract the last strength to support her, not indulging in the sickbed, not sick and weak. Even so, one month is far better than three months. She knows what she can do, in this life, missed repentance, ten thousand dreams, and smoke, the only thing that can be left for him and his children is her light and agile figure.

"The lady is resting, and the lady will come back later." Shen Pearl heard the unhurried words of the female official outside the hall. Li Yu and his entourage set off for half an hour, the sky was hazy and gloomy, and it was not bright.

"Get out of the way. Let me in! Outside is Su Ci's voice, Su Ci has always been respectful and humble, and everything is pleasing to people, Shen Pearl has not heard her say a word of radical words for many years, but today is obviously very different, the voice is both anxious and panicked.

Shen Pearl was about to open her mouth to ask the female official to let Su Porcelain into the inner room, but when she heard the muffled sound of "Tong", the female official's forehead thought that she had hit the mica screen, and whispered "Ouch", and Su Porcelain had already rushed in.

When Su Ci rushed in, Shen Pearl had already stood up from the couch, and the two eyes collided, and Su Ci was stunned at first. Shen Pearl saw that Su Porcelain was panting, her face was red and white, and she took a few steps forward and asked softly, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Su Ci didn't answer, but only asked Shen Pearl in an undecided breath: "Miss, are you going to leave the palace again, leave Your Highness, and go with Miss Murong and Miss Xue Hongxian?" Shen Pearl never deliberately concealed that she was leaving, and even in order to win Li Yu's trust, she always deployed one or two little palace maids every day to pack up, hats in winter, tulle in summer, and curtains, silks, one by one, collected and purchased, like a simulation. Shen Pearl held Su Porcelain's hand and said with a smile: "Yes, I'll go out to enjoy the mountains and rivers—"

Su Porcelain's tears welled up all of a sudden, "What a tour, Miss, look at your appearance, you are sick and weak, and you are very short of breath even when you speak, don't lie to me!" Can't you forgive Your Majesty? I know, miss, you deliberately avoided Your Majesty! Otherwise, how can you be willing to put aside Shi'er and Shengping! ”

Shen Pearl was slightly stunned, laughed uncontrollably, took out a handkerchief from her arms to wipe away her tears for Su Porcelain, and said, "What are you talking nonsense?" ”

Su Porcelain knelt down at Shen Zhuzhu's feet, raised her head high, and said word by word: "Miss, everything is my fault, I deserve to die, Miss, you must forgive Your Majesty!" Shen Pearl was a little stunned, and then bent down to pull her up, but her hands were weak, Su Porcelain was stubborn, she couldn't pull her, and sighed: "What are you doing, you and my sisters, after we give birth, we don't have the strength to help you up!" ”

Su Ci knelt there like a wooden stake, and when Shen Pearl finished speaking, she sobbed and said, "Miss, you don't know, when the Hui Khan visited you late at night in the Luoyang Palace, it was me who told the queen the secret!" It was on the way back to the palace that day that I happened to catch a glimpse of the figure of Moyan Si Khan, and went to tell the queen the secret! If, if I hadn't told you, how could the former emperor and queen have just arrived so coincidentally, so that you, Your Highness and the Hui Khan would have made a mess out of control, let Your Highness misunderstand you, and let you leave him! She cried loudly, "Everything is mine, it's my fault!" ”

There is nothing to say, and it is even more earth-shattering than Su Porcelain's words in one breath.

Shen Pearl thought back to the past, many incomprehensible points were broken, she lost her strength, staggered back a few steps, leaned on the couch, could only close her eyes and did not look at Su Ci, her voice was soft and weak: "I see, you, Su Ci...... We are like sisters, why is that? ”

Su Porcelain touched the ground with his head, knocked three heads fiercely, his forehead was broken, and there was hidden blood on his cheeks. She said, "Because I'm going to save my own sister!" ”

"Are you your own sister? - "Shen Pearl still didn't open his eyes, and asked with a thousand melancholy in his heart, as if there was no place to land.

"She's a lone mirror!"

Shen Pearl Huo Ran sat up, but she couldn't use her strength, her body went weak, and she fell back again, she was shocked to find that she had collapsed so far! She gritted her teeth, but fortunately, this prostration only appeared in an instant, and she finally sat up with some strength.

Dugu Mirror and Su Porcelain, biological sisters?!

"I didn't know it, and neither did she. Back then, I was in the same palace as her in Guangping, but I didn't recognize each other. After returning to Chang'an by Fengxiang, there was a time when I coaxed my mother to sing a minor tune made up by my mother in the past, and she was able to reconcile with me. It turned out that she was really my long-lost sister. Miss, you also know that my ancestral home is Yangzhou, and my family grows tea for a living. Twenty years ago, my father and mother died on the way to flee due to a plague, and my eight-year-old sister and I were separated from each other. ”

In fact, there are clues to be found. Dugu Mirror and Su Porcelain, eyebrows and expressions are somewhat similar, Su Porcelain is good at tea, Dugu Mirror has colluded with Queen Zhang to open a teahouse, and the furnishings of the teahouse are cooked, and it can be seen that there are people who are very good at tea behind them. Before Dugujing died, she grabbed her skirt and spit out two words, but she couldn't hear it clearly at the time, but at this time, Shen Pearl suddenly felt like an enlightenment.

Plain porcelain.

Shen Pearl secretly felt heartache and was a little angry: "When the two of us were trapped in the dark room of the palace, Dugujing instructed Zhang Deyu to murder us, and he didn't care about your life or death. Although she is your sister, how much sisterhood does she have for you, so that you have left me and yours sisterhood? ”

Su Ci cried: "Even so, it's my sister after all." So—"

"So when Dugujing was imprisoned, Queen Zhang threatened you with her life and asked you to do things for her to save Dugujing's life, right?" Shen Pearl's heart moved at will, and she guessed the ins and outs in an instant.

Su Ci nodded, kowtowed one after another, and cried: "Su Ci knew that it was wrong, and when she did this, she knew it was wrong!" I, I didn't know it could be so serious...... In the past few years, I have repented day and night, and I no longer pay attention to my sister and Queen Zhang. On the day you left, I picked up the fragments of your torn letterhead, little by little, and every night, after Shi'er and Zhen'er fell asleep, I picked up the lamp and pieced it together-" Shen Pearl was taken aback, looking at the plain porcelain in front of her, speechless, no wonder she always felt that she was too haggard when she saw the plain porcelain again this time. It turns out that plain porcelain has lived such a day!

"Fortunately, not long after you returned to Chang'an, you actually let me spell it out!" Su Ci suddenly showed joy, and then his face darkened, "I will send the spelled text to His Royal Highness the Prince, I think, if he knows your mind at that time, he will be able to completely dissolve your past suspicions with you, since you left, he has been worried about you day and night, Su Ci is also very heartbroken to look at." However, I didn't expect you to leave him-" There were tears in her eyes, and every time she mentioned Li Yu, there was always a bright color.

Shen Pearl remembered that day a few months ago, Li Yu suddenly rushed to Yichun Palace, hugged her suddenly and tightly, and only said: "In this life, I have failed you too much." Around that day, Li Yu got the patchwork letterhead from Su Porcelain's hand and knew the sentence she left.

Foam with each other, not as if looking at each other in the rivers and lakes.

And Su Porcelain, in the relationship with Li Yu for several years, that heart has long been inclined to him bit by bit. She was subject to Queen Zhang for Dugujing, but she was just being used, and she thought it was just a joke with Queen Zhang and Dugujing's embarrassment. But does Dugu Jingzhen have no sisterhood for Su Porcelain? Dugu Jing's strange eyes when he was dying intertwined in Shen Zhu's mind, proud, pleading, and vicious? Many of Dugujing's thoughts are unbreakable for her.

Shen Pearl stood up and slowly walked to Su Ci, and said, "What happened back then, even if you didn't tell you, me and him would have ended like this." There are thousands of mistakes, all of them are made by creation, and I don't blame you. Besides, you have taken care of my children for the past few years, and I will never be able to repay this love. If you want to kneel and can't afford it, I'll kneel to show you, look at our sisters, who owes more to whom! Smiling slightly, she was really about to kneel, Su Ci hurriedly propped up half of her body to support Shen Zhu, and cried: "Miss, I have no place to be ashamed." ”

Shen Pearl burst out laughing, "You, you, why do you have to think about it more?" Your Majesty and I have been reconciled as before, and now I am leaving for the time being, but I have left the palace to recuperate because of my health, and I will definitely return. ”

Su Ci wiped away her tears and looked at Shen Pearl suspiciously, "Really?" Miss, don't lie to me, you say a quasi-letter, when will you come back at the latest? ”

Shen Pearl saw that she was staring at her and asking extremely seriously, so she blinked and said with a playful smile: "Latest? Well, when I think about it—" I paced a few steps on my back in a meditative manner, turned around with a solemn tone, "I think it will not be later than fifty, eighty, or one hundred years from now, when your soul will return to the void!" Su Porcelain was slightly happy, as if he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and there were tears in his eyes, and said: "Miss, the tone in which I just spoke, the truth was ...... many years ago when I was in the boudoir."

She said: "At that time, the young lady, and me, and Sister Hongrui, were really happy every day. ”

On 15 April, Li Yu returned to Luan.

Since returning to Chang'an, Li Yu has spent more and more time in Yichun Palace every day, so long that Shen Pearl has reminded the new monarch several times to put state affairs first. Li Yu went his own way, he was by her side, more often than not, he didn't say anything, he didn't do anything, sat in front of the window, watched her take medicine, watched her tease Li Shi and Shengping, watched her talk with Murong Lin Zhi, Xue Hongxian, and Su Ci in a slow and soft voice, and from time to time made eye contact with him, knowing and laughing.

He is obviously haggard, the new emperor listens to the government, the remnants of Shi Chaoyi are not finished, it is not as good as being a prince, and now no matter how big or small the state affairs are, they have to be asked one by one.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Li Yu performed the ceremony of ascending all day long, and went to Yichun Palace at night. But seeing that the large and small bags were all decorated, stacked on several cases in an orderly manner, Shen Pearl sat on the couch, hugged Shengping, muttered, and made a silent gesture when he saw him come in. Li Yu approached, and saw that Shengping was half-squinting, pouting, and it was when he was going to sleep and was cute and cute, so he casually took Shengping into his arms, shook it gently, and handed it to Shen Pearl after a while, smiling relatively - his daughter snored slightly and fell asleep.

When Mama took over Shengping, all the palace maids and attendants retreated, and Li Yu helped Shen Pearl to lie on the couch and said, "You must leave tomorrow?" His gaze swept over, bright and bright, and Shen Pearl nodded. He also lay down on his back and whispered beside her: "Can you, one day later, I will ascend the great ceremony tomorrow, and I can make you the queen the day after tomorrow." You...... Is it okay to go again the day after tomorrow? As he spoke, he took her by the body and let her head rest in his arms. Shen Pearl shook his head, he felt it, and just sighed, "Okay, you have to wait until I reach the pole before leaving...... Gotta let me send you. Shen Pearl laughed: "Of course, I must wait for you, and when the world of the Tang Dynasty comes, I still have to meet Your Majesty in a proper manner!" Li Yu's hand tightened, hugged her hard, and said in a deep voice: "You must wait for me!" ”

Shen Pearl was sleepy again, smiling, and slurred: "It must be ...... What you promised me, you have to do it, you have to restore Su Porcelain's original surname, treat her well, Han Ruo's sister goes, only Su Porcelain. If I become a queen, she will be a noble ......" Before the words were finished, the person was already asleep.

Li Yu hugged her soft body and didn't dare to move. Tonight, there is no moon outside the window, the shadows of the trees are swaying, there are birds chirping, there are bursts of cicadas, he is already rich in the world, but he feels that the darkness is boundless, and the bones are cold, wrapping him layer by layer......

On the sixth day of the fifth month, the scorching sun is rippling, and the golden light that spills to the ground is reflected on the glazed tiles of the halls of Daming Palace, which is brilliant and brilliant, and makes people unable to open their eyes. Li Yu served the crown, in the Hanyuan Palace, that is, the emperor's throne, by the hundred officials to congratulate, all the states worship, the ceremony is grand, the amnesty of the world, the people, is for the Tang Dynasty.

It was nearly noon when the ceremony was over, Li Yu walked to the main gate of the main hall, and the ministers gradually dispersed, and they had gone out of the palace to Danfeng Gate in twos and threes.

"Your Majesty, Weichen Feng Yi, there is something to do." Feng Sheng's clothes flashed from the side and bowed.

Li Yu had something in his heart, glanced at him, and said: "Today's court meeting has been dispersed, and there is something to play again tomorrow, retreat." ”

Feng Shengyi did not retreat, and said in a deep voice: "This is Weichen's private matter - I ask Your Majesty to allow Weichen to resign and go into hiding." ”

Li Yu looked at him sideways, and his tone was indifferent: "Resign? You're going to quit when you're done? Have you forgotten when you joined me back then, how arrogant you were? ”

Feng Shengyi said: "Your Majesty's rescue and the grace of knowing the encounter will never be forgotten." When the minister thought of merit, now although he has achieved something, he feels that he has lost all the fun, His Majesty has been honored with a great treasure, and the wind and clothes have been decided, and the rest of his life only wishes that the long sword will float and travel all over the world. May Your Majesty be fulfilled. ”

"The long sword floats and travels all over the world." The corners of Li Yu's mouth hooked a trance smile, and the smile was full of meaning, and said, "Okay, I've got you!" But before you go, you'll have to do one last thing for me—"

"Please show your majesty, the minister will not give up!" Feng Shengyi raised his head, but saw Li Yu's eyes turning slightly, looking towards the group of ministers who were heading towards Danfeng Gate, and finally fixed on the back of one of them - Li Fuguo, above the court today, because he killed Empress Zhang and Li Li, and sealed the marching Sima, he was specially given to live in the mansion outside the palace.

"I understand." Feng Shengyi whispered, Li Yu bowed his head quietly.

There was already a shoulder waiting for Li Yu to go down to the court at Guangfan Gate. Li Yu's expression was solemn, and he only said the word "fast" on his shoulder, and the eight attendants who carried the shoulders had already spread their footsteps and flew in the direction of Yichun Palace. From Guangfan Gate, through Xing'an Gate, West Inner Garden, Xuanfu Gate, to Yichun Palace, there are more than ten miles away, the shoulder was originally used by the emperor, the decoration is grand and luxurious, it has been carried for a long time, the inner servant is weak under his feet, Li Yu is anxious like a fire, seeing that he is about to reach Xuanfu Gate, several inner servants have fallen crookedly, cheered "stop", stepped on his shoulder, and rushed to Yichun Palace.

The weather was already extremely hot, and the crown he wore was matched with the middle single, Xuanyi, and silk clothes, which were very complicated and cumbersome, and the sweat drops were soaked out, Yan Ming followed behind and whispered to persuade: "Your Majesty, why don't you make a little loose clothes and travel lightly?" ”

Li Yu didn't answer, his steps were faster, he stepped into the gate of the backyard of Yichun Palace, and the palace maids and guards knelt down all the way, and finally entered the inner room, lifted the gauze curtain, and put the heart back into place slightly. Shen Pearl stood sideways by the window, the sunlight was projected on her extremely thin cheeks, there was no wind flowing in the air, the four directions were quiet, hearing the sound, she turned her head, the light in her eyes slowly flowed, it was gorgeous and indescribable, she smiled suddenly, and jumped into his arms. Li Yu was at a loss, he didn't know what to say or do, he just knew that he hugged her tightly with all his strength, and in this life, he couldn't be separated.

In this and this life, we can no longer be separated.

However, the tighter she embraced, the more empty her heart became, and she had an inexplicable urge to just hold her in her arms and jump into the gap between time and space, and never come out again.

He heard himself laugh and say, "I'm really afraid you're gone." ”

"How so?" She laughed softly, "I promised you that I would wait for you to come back." ”

Li Yu nodded, unfolded his robe, and forced a smile to himself: "Look, I look good in this crown?" ”

Shen Pearl smiled and looked up and down, pulled up the sleeves of his robe painted with dragons, mountains, Chinese insects, fire and Zong Yi to look at it carefully, and praised him: "I have never seen an emperor wearing a crown so heroic and upright, Yu, you finally got what you wanted-" Suddenly, there was a dizziness in her mind, Li Yu hurriedly raised her hand to hold her, Shen Pearl had recovered, and said with a smile: "Look at my body, I really need to take care of them with Lin Zhi." ”

Li Yu said in a sullen voice: "The luggage is ready?" ”

Shen Pearl stroked Li Yu's face with her fingers and said with a smile: "Look at you, I've only been there for a year and a half." The luggage had already been moved to the carriage outside Chongming Gate, Lin Zhi and Hongxian's sister had been waiting for me for a long time, such a hot day, it was not good to make them wait for a long time. I went to Su Ci to see Shi'er and Shengping just now, and they are all very good, so I won't disturb their brothers and sisters to play and have fun. ”

Li Yu still nodded, his voice dull, "Then you can go." ”

Shen Pearl bit her lip lightly and said, "I'll leave, you don't have to send me if you dress like this." You can carry me out on your own shoulders. ”

Li Yu finally turned his head sideways, pressed his left palm against Wen Xing's pillar, and said, "Okay." ”

Shen Pearl bent over towards him, and was about to turn around, but he suddenly grabbed her waist, her chest was agitated, and she was choked in her heart, unable to say a word, she could only let him hug him tightly, and his voice was hoarse and dry: "I will wait for you." ”

He let go slowly, stepped back, and turned his back.

Instead, her eyes filled with tears, and she turned around resolutely.

Shoulder to shoulder unhurried, to Yongfu Gate stopped, need to walk dozens of steps to Chongming Gate. Shen Pearl walked very slowly, step by step more and more difficult, but he insisted on not letting the palace maid beside him support him. When she arrived at the main gate of Chongming Gate, she saw Murong Linzhi and Xue Hongxian and a carriage waiting for her, her feet were soft, Murong Linzhi and Xue Hongxian both rushed up, one left and one right to support her.

Shen Pearl raised her eyes to look at the nine-fold palace, the palace gate was deep, the sky was like clouds, and gradually lost its color in front of her, she gasped: "Quick, help me into the carriage." ”

The carriage was moving slowly, Shen Pearl only felt that her eyelids were heavy, and she didn't have any strength up and down, and some faintly warm sunlight came through, and another tear rolled down her face, and she muttered: "Hongxian, don't cry." ”

Hearing Xue Hongxian's voice wiping away tears, "How do you know that it's me crying, not Murong Linzhi?" ”

Shen Pearl smiled reluctantly, "When ...... However, Lin Zhi ...... I've seen it...... The most remarkable...... Woman, you, must ...... Good ...... Learn from her. His hand was slightly warm, and he heard Murong Lin Zhi say: "You are also the woman I admire the most." ”

Shen Pearl smiled and shook her head, but she was sleepy and fell asleep with her head drowsy and drowsy away.

I don't know how long I slept, and in a trance, the carriage swayed like a cradle, so I asked dimly, "...... Where did it go...... Do you have...... Out of Chang'an City? ”

Murong Lin said: "I haven't left Chang'an City yet, I've arrived at Qujiang Pond, and I will be able to leave Chang'an in a while." ”

Shen Pearl seemed to have some strength on his body, "Qujiangchi? She opened her eyes slowly with difficulty, "Help me down, I want to see ......"

Murong Lin Zhi and Xue Hongxian glanced at each other, called the carriage to stop, and the two of them worked together to help Shen Pearl out of the carriage, half lying on the grass by the Qujiang Pond.

On the shore of the Qujiang Pond in May, the heat is unbearable, only a few people play and enjoy the fun, and occasionally there is the delicate and innocent laughter of the girl.

Shen Pearl looked up with her eyes open and said, "Sky, it's so blue." ”

A few years ago, the spring on the shore of Qujiang Pond was like weaving, and she was accompanied by plain porcelain and red stamen. The origin of everything is here. The front bears and closes, like a dream.

She heard someone chanting poetry in mid-air, stretching endlessly, lingering around the world, it was exactly like her voice in Qingyue back then: "The water of the waves is clear, you can wet me; The water of the waves is turbid, and it can wet my feet. ”

She heard An Qingxu say: "I don't know what it will be like to visit this place again in ten years." ”

Mo Yan sirped and said, "I will return to the door of the royal court, and it will always be open for you." ”

Next to the glittering carriage, Li Jiao suddenly stretched out his hand to pick her up and said, "With me, don't be afraid." ”

"......" she slowly spat out the last word, her eyes were dim, and her lips and teeth were pursed. Murong Lin Zhi and Xue Hong wept silently.

The driver of the carriage had been sitting with his back to him, and then he slowly turned around, stepped out of the carriage, and took off the scarf from his head.

Murong Lin raised his head and choked up, "Your Majesty." ”

He half-knelt down and held her tightly in his arms, his chin against her forehead.

His heart no longer hurt.

This heart, with her departure, is about to die.

(Tianjin)