When the moon was full in the Mid-Autumn Festival of another year, Xiao Yu ordered people to set up a table of fruit offerings and a yaoqin in the pavilion in the imperial garden, and then asked the two children to lead their father to the back garden.

When Zhou Lu's feet stepped into the back garden, he heard the sound of the piano coming from the garden, followed by his wife's self-playing and singing, "The sea laughs, and the tide on both sides of the strait... ”

This song reminded him of the meeting with Lu You in Xiangguo Temple in Bianliang that year, and naturally remembered the woman he had missed for more than ten years, Yan Yan.

Before he knew it, it had been more than thirty years since he had been on this plane, and it was so long that he almost forgot that he didn't belong here.

It's also a coincidence, his life experience is really similar to the original owner, he was also an illegitimate son in the previous life, and his father was the famous king of the northwest, and because of the war at that time, he had no time to take care of him, or rather, forgot his existence.

Until one day, when his mother was critically ill and had to send him back to his father, he was only eight years old, and the eight-year-old child could not protect himself, so he had to live humbly in that Overseer's house.

Originally, his father wanted him to study military or mechanics, but he refused, and chose medicine to his liking, in order to reassure his brothers, he had no intention of intervening in the struggle for power between them, he just wanted to support himself with his own skills.

Unexpectedly, the giant wheel of war still pushed him to the cusp, several brothers died in the war, and his father had to find him back, and he had no choice in the face of national righteousness.

It's a pity that he didn't know anything about war, and he didn't like this kind of killing, so he became a field doctor, and finally fell under the cliff to cover a few wounded, and woke up to become a young master of a merchant's family, that year, Zhou Lu was just three years old.

At that time, he didn't know that the father who had been called by the original owner for a few years was not his biological father, and he thought that his biological mother was really an outer chamber that his father married, and died because of difficult childbirth.

Until his biological father came to the door.

Because of his gratitude for Zhou Lu's biological mother's rescue, or perhaps because of his love for the house and Wu, the biological father originally wanted to take him back, but Zhou Lu didn't agree, and he didn't leave the Zhou family.

Since then, he has been brought to his grandfather to raise, to be precise, he should be called his grandfather, that is, the head of the Zhou family at that time.

Zhou Lu, who has the experience of the previous life, still chose a similar path to the previous life in this life, neither wanting to meddle in the Zhou family's family business nor going back to Liao to be a prince, so he was obsessed with piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and songs, and was determined to be a literati or something.

The difference is that he learned the lessons of his previous life and learned martial arts from his teacher, not for anything else, but because he wanted to save himself or others at a critical time.

Another point, this biological father is much more competent than his father in the previous life, every year he will send someone to pick him up back to the Liao State father and son to get together for a while, knowing that he likes the culture of the Han people, and also hired a famous teacher for him, knowing that he wants to learn martial arts, and also equipped him with two masters, as he grew older, the biological father took him with him to teach him to deal with various affairs or government affairs.

In short, this biological father greatly made up for the lack of paternal love in Zhou Lu's previous life, so he was inevitably also involved in the royal struggle of the Liao State.

This is also the main reason why he learned that Lu Duan and others visited Zhou's house that year and rushed to Bianliang in the name of study tours, in order to find out the true intentions of the Great Zhou Emperor and the true identity of the mysterious nobleman.

It is also a coincidence that he just arrived in Bianliang to catch a Mid-Autumn Festival, and learned that Lu Ming, the prince of Zhenguo, who is known as the first prince of the capital, likes to take a bunch of people to gather on Osmanthus Mountain in Xiangguo Temple, and he also rushed over with two people.

Even more coincidentally, when he was worried that he could not find a reason to approach them, he suddenly heard the sound of a piano in his ears, and then someone sang a song, and when the lyrics reached his ears, he was stunned.

To be exact, he was moved by this lyric and song, and soon resonated, which seemed to be a portrayal of his own life.

But listening to it, he felt that something was wrong, it didn't look like the lyrics and songs of this time and space, but it was a little close to the style of words in his previous life.

He took the initiative to go up to them on the grounds of this song, and was even more surprised to learn that the song was written by a woman.

To be honest, he didn't quite believe that such a heroic and free lyrics and songs were made by women, so he doubted the origin of this woman, most of whom were from the same era as him, and copied her works from that time and space.

It's just that he searched in his mind for a long time and couldn't remember that he had ever heard or seen this song, so he was a little skeptical of his own inference.

When he returned to the city, he took a moment to find out about the woman, and everything else was fine, but when he saw the pieces of cake on the counter, he trusted his judgment again.

Especially after learning what cotton and sweet potatoes this woman planted and solved two major problems for Da Zhou, he believed that this woman was his traveling companion.

For this reason, he moved his mind to get close to Yan Yan, crossing his peers is on the one hand, and on the other hand, the relationship between Yan Yan and the royal family, with Yan Yan as a medium, it is not easy for him to find out some news about the royal family of the Great Zhou?

So, he used the connections of the Zhou family to enter the mansion of the eldest princess of Jinyang, and only then did he meet Yan Yan, and it could be seen that Yan Yan was also very vigilant at that time, and he wanted to test his origin.

And he naturally didn't want to expose his secrets, because he was not only a traverser, but his identity as the prince of Liao was also quite secret at that time, so after getting the news he wanted, he quickly left Bianliang.

It's a pity that he thought he was smart and found out the news of Li Ji, the prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and also sent someone to catch him from the territory of Liao, wanting to persuade him to form an alliance with Liao to fight against Jin, because he also knew that in his previous life, Liao was destroyed by Jin, so he never wanted the same tragedy to happen again in this time and space.

But what he never expected was that Li Ji not only escaped from Liao, but also kidnapped his crown brother.

The war broke out unexpectedly, and his embarrassed and angry father took the initiative to find the Jurchens.

Zhou Lu, who had been persuaded to no avail, remembered Yan Yan, so he sent someone to send Yan Yan a generous gift.

There is no love or hate for no reason in this world, and he believes that he should be able to guess his intentions and thus his origins.

If Yan Yan really came from the same era as him, he should know that the Jurchen is not credible, he should persuade the Great Zhou Emperor to let his brother go, and he should form an alliance with the Liao State to fight against Jin.

It's a pity that he was disappointed, but Yan Yan sent someone to give him a gift back, and also sent back all the seeds owed to him, and nothing else seemed to have been done.

What's worse is that this trip once again aroused Yan Yan's interest in him, not only did Yan Yan send people to track him, but the Great Zhou Imperial City Division also went to Jinyang, and his stand-in was "recuperating" in Jinyang at that time, planning to escape the eyes and ears of the Great Zhou Emperor, and return the peace of his grandfather's family.

Na Cheng thought that the people of the Imperial City Division not only arrested his stand-in, but also captured the head of the Zhou family and his nominal father.

This move also annoyed him, and in a fit of anger, he ordered someone to arrest Lu Duan, originally wanted to arrest Yan Peng, but was dodged by Yan Peng, he wanted to use Lu Duan to exchange the father and son of the Zhou family and the prince brother.

Unexpectedly, the nightmare of the Liao State was born.

Because of Lu Duan's capture, Lu You was forced to go to the battlefield, thus turning the tide of the war in one fell swoop, and this war also entered the era of firearms from the era of cold weapons, and Da Zhou, who mastered firearms, obviously also grasped the opportunity and initiative of this war.

At that time, he became interested in Yan Yan again, what was the origin of this woman, and she was able to make gunpowder and artillery.

To tell the truth, he was sighing to himself.

However, because he studied Western medicine, it is still somewhat possible that gunpowder should be studied seriously, and artillery is at a loss.

Therefore, he suspected that Yan Yan might have been a soldier or a war maniac in his last life, and if that was the case, the Liao State would be in danger.

Because at that time, the Jurchens were afraid of the power of the Great Zhou artillery and unilaterally tore up the alliance agreement and withdrew their troops from the Liao State, this treacherous villain behavior not only hurt the vitality of the Liao State, but also made his father sick, and the father who was lying on the sickbed knew that his time was short, and he regretted not listening to the advice of this son, in order to make up for his previous mistakes, his father handed over the jade seal symbolizing the throne to him.

At the beginning of his ascension, he suspended the war on the grounds of the national mourning of the Liao State and proposed to reconcile with the Great Zhou.

Of course, he knew that reconciliation would come at a price, so he sent a few people to meet Yan Yan and test Yan Yan's attitude, because he knew that these firearms must have come from her, and her attitude must have also represented the thoughts of the Great Zhou Emperor to some extent.

Fortunately, this time Yan Yan did not disappoint him.

And he also made a big concession and offered to return the sixteen states of Yanyun, because he knew that this was the heart disease of the emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and only by returning the sixteen states of Yanyun would the Great Zhou not be shaken by the Jin State and form an alliance with the Jin State to destroy Liao.

Fortunately, this time, Da Zhou quickly accepted his terms for peace talks.

Next, he originally wanted to recuperate for a few years, and at the same time use his talents in the previous life to learn to govern this devastated country well, but the Jurchens took the first step to provoke a war, and they didn't even give him time to breathe.

This time, he borrowed Yan Yan's light again, Yan Yan not only sent him the grain, grass and items he urgently needed, but also persuaded the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty to send troops to the Jurchens, and Lu You, a war genius, did not disappoint everyone, and he actually won the Jurchens in less than three years.

Next is the land exchange between the two countries, this time, he made concessions again, with Shanhaiguan as the boundary, let the Great Zhou build a Great Wall, and he didn't have so much ambition to annex the world in the Central Plains, he just wanted to hold the Liao State for his father, which he owed him.

Anyway, since then, he has finally lived a stable life for a few years.

It's just that since then, he can't give up on that woman in his heart, and it's not all about male and female affection, it's more like family affection.

That's right, Yan Yan is like one of his relatives, a relative from his hometown, and the only one, so it is normal for him to think about her.

He wanted to know how she was doing, where she came from in her last life, what she did, and what the end of that war would be.

For this reason, every year when he paid tribute to the Great Zhou Emperor, he would order someone to bring Yan Yan a generous gift, but unfortunately, if he wanted to ask, he never had the opportunity to ask.

This time, too, he received news that the imperial grandson of the Great Zhou was going to get married, and the bride was Yan Yan's daughter Lu Jin.

When he heard the news at first glance, he was a little regretful, and his chest was also vaguely painful, he had already missed Yan Yan, he wanted to have the opportunity to marry her daughter, he believed that with her daughter marrying, Yan Yan would definitely try his best to protect the Liao country.

But the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty proposed his relatives in front of him, and he had already released the rumors, even if he had the heart, he was powerless.

Moreover, he got married late, and his son is only twelve years old this year, but I am afraid that if he is willing, Lu Jin can't wait.

"Your Majesty, what do you think of the concubines?" Xiao Yu's questioning interrupted Zhou Lu's memories.

She also saw her husband standing on the side of the road for a long time after entering the garden, and knew that he must have fallen into memories again, so she came over to comfort and comfort him.

"How could the queen have remembered to play this tune?" Zhou Lu walked to the pavilion and sat down, poured himself a glass of wine, and after it was dry, Xiao Yu's hand reached over and picked up the wine jug first when he wanted to pour it himself.

"It's nothing, the concubine heard that Yan'er's sister's daughter was going out of the cabinet, remembering the situation of rushing into her house that year, time flies so fast, I was a reckless little girl back then, and now I have become a yellow-faced woman with both children and daughters, what a pity, I originally thought that if our son was born a few years earlier, he could marry her daughter." After Xiao Yu poured her husband a glass of wine, she also sat down and poured herself a glass.

Zhou Lu glanced at his wife when he heard this, but he didn't mean to blame her, he saw his wife's efforts and progress over the years, and he couldn't ask the other party for anything.

"Husband, why don't the two of us take this opportunity to go to Bianliang, we didn't take a good look at the prosperity of Bianliang last time." Xiao Yu saw that her husband looked at her and didn't speak, her heart moved, and she smiled.

"To Bianliang?" After a brief moment of surprise, Zhou Lu began to think about the feasibility of this suggestion.

Da Zhou and Da Liao have already signed an armistice proposal, and the Great Wall on the border began to be built two years ago, so Da Zhou shouldn't regret it so quickly, right?

But who dares to guarantee that Da Zhou will change his mind if he sees him sent to the door, because once he is detained, there will definitely be no leader on the Liao side, and his son is just twelve years old, and he is still early to become an adult.

"You really want to go?" Zhou Lu asked.

Xiao Yu nodded when he heard this, but quickly shook his head again, "Your Majesty, the concubine is just talking, and the concubine can't let you take this risk." ”

"I'm not going, you can take Qin'er and Gan'er with you, I heard that several children of King Pingyan have different knowledge, and our children are just going to broaden their horizons." Zhou Lu suddenly had an idea.

He wanted Yan Yan to meet his two children, and he should be able to guess his origin from the names of the two children, maybe the other party would be interested in following Xiao Yu to Liao after knowing his origin.

After all, he showed sincerity first and sent Xiao Yu to take the child to her daughter's wedding, and the gifts were still exchanged, why should Yan Yan come to see him, right?

As soon as Xiao Yu heard that her husband asked her to see Yan Yan, her eyes suddenly dimmed, after so many years, her husband really couldn't let go of that woman, no matter how hard she tried, she still couldn't compare to her.

When she was bowing her head and hurting her nerves, her husband's hand held her hand, "The queen thinks too much, I let you go, there are two reasons." ”

Zhou Lu explained to his wife that he had a preliminary idea, since he couldn't marry Yan Yan's daughter, he could marry his daughter to Yan Yan's son, Lu You is now the king of Pingyan, and his eldest son has been named the prince, and he will inherit Lu You's title in the future.

Of course, marrying Lu Chu as his daughter's princess is really a marriage, but he has thought about it, if his daughter stays in Liao, she can only marry the son of a minister, and she is not as good as Lu Chu, but if she marries the royal family of another country, this kind of marriage is too purposeful and may not be happy.

And Lu Chu also has an advantage that others can't match, he doesn't accept concubines, in this time and space, it is even more difficult to find a man who doesn't accept concubines.

There is a second reason, Zhou Lu wants to meet Yan Yan, he wants to discuss the economic development of Liao with her, at this point, Yan Yan has done much more than him, and he wants to learn something.

Xiao Yu saw that her husband was so honest, so she nodded hurriedly.