Two years ago, when Emperor Xiaowu had just moved west. Yuwentai welcomed the emperor and his entourage to Chang'an, and on the way, a fair-skinned and gorgeous woman of the clan came to him and asked him for a mansion with a pond and a rockery.

At that time, the people who moved west were in chaos, and Yuwentai was busy with the placement of the emperor and empress, and he had no time to care about a little girl who appeared out of nowhere. At that time, he only perfunctory two sentences about her, and he didn't even ask who she was.

After a while, when all the royals had settled down, the girl came to him again, angrily asking him why he hadn't allocated the mansion as she had requested.

Yu Wentai felt funny and asked, "Xia Guan still doesn't know the identity of this girl, how can he be placed according to the girl's requirements?" ”

The girl raised her fair face and pointed chin, and said a little arrogantly: "I am the lord of Gaoping who is the king of Nanyang. ”

Seeing her so arrogant, Yuwentai smiled again: "It turned out to be the lord of Gaoping, Yuwentai was disrespectful." He thought for a while, now that the Nanyang Wang's family has gone to the fiefdom, this little county lord came to Chang'an to shout at him for a mansion, which shows that he is an arrogant and domineering lord. Yu Wentai didn't want to consume too much on such a worthless and wasted person, so he said: "The county lord has golden branches and jade leaves, why is it difficult to build a house with a pond and a rockery." It's just that now that the king and princess of Nanyang have settled down, it's quite inappropriate to let them move in—"

When the county lord of Gaoping saw Yuwentai for the first time, he saw that his sword eyebrows and phoenix eyes were handsome, and he was already a deer, and at this time, he heard him coax himself with such nice words, and he couldn't help but blush, and the anger in his stomach was swept away, and he pouted and said coquettishly: "I don't care, you have to find a way for me." ”

Yuwentai smiled: "That's it, Yuwentai got a friend in Nanyang in his early years to give a house like this in Nanyang." How about transferring it to the county lord as an annex? ”

When Gao Ping heard this, he was overjoyed. Not to mention the county lord, even the princess of the royal family, she rarely had a private house before marriage. As soon as this Yuwentai made a move, he actually gave her a private house. In the future, when a group of little sisters from the clan get together, she doesn't know how many envious glances she will have to accept.

No young girl can resist the erosion of vanity and fantasy. Since then, Gao Ping has been obsessed with Yuwentai. Later, Emperor Xiaowu died, King Nanyang succeeded to the throne, and Gao Ping also became a princess and returned to Chang'an.

Yu Wentai had seen her a few times in the palace, and I don't know if those accidents were deliberately made.

Gradually, there were some rumors in the palace. Yuwentai also heard Huangmen, who was familiar with him in the palace, mention that Princess Gaoping was interested in him.

At the time, he just smiled and didn't take it seriously. The matter of giving her a private house two years ago was not worth mentioning to Yu Wentai at all, not to mention that he was just trying to solve a problem at that time. But now, Princess Gaoping actually went to marry the Supreme by herself. The Supreme has always favored her, and Ben also intends to choose one of several princesses of the right age to be married to Yuwentai to strengthen his connection with the royal family. After coming and going, such a rumor came out.

Originally, Yuwentai would not have thought that Princess Shang Gaoping was a great event. Marriage with the royal family is a thing that great people throughout the ages will do, and it doesn't matter what they gain or lose. Besides, he remembered that the little princess was still very beautiful.

But now he is embarrassed, his mind is now on Ran Ying, but this little Ran Ying does not want to be a concubine with him.

mentioned this when he took her to Puyuan earlier, Ran Ying said that his concubine position was not rare, and he didn't want to force her, he didn't want to forget it, although he liked her, he didn't have to be her. Later, I mentioned it to her again during Qixi Festival, she said that she would rather be a wife in white than a concubine with the Son of Heaven, and he didn't care, but admired her arrogance. Later, she said that she did not want to climb his big tree, he respected her, and he was willing to let her be a weed in the field and enjoy herself. To put it bluntly, until that time, she was just a funny little girl to him, and he often wanted to tease. If he really wants to get her, of course, there are means to force her to comply.

But that's no longer the case. He couldn't get out of his relationship with her. After Yu Ziqing's death and Qin Zhou's party, Ran Ying's weight in his heart suddenly became heavier. She didn't want him to be a concubine, and he didn't want her to be a concubine.

To put it bluntly, she doesn't want a concubine, and a wife is ...... With her background, she can't reach it at all. He wouldn't let her go in this life anyway, and he wanted to keep her by his side for another two years to see which of the two of them would give in first. But as soon as Princess Gaoping's matter came out, he was forced to give a result immediately.

What to do about this?

Ran Ying didn't know that Yu Wentai had so many things on her mind, and said softly: "I've been thinking about it lately, our entire family has died for a jade seal that no one has ever seen, is it worth it." Perhaps, those things that others think are not worth it, but you must do with all your strength, are called ideals. But I don't understand. If only they were all alive. ”

Yu Wentai looked at her lovingly and said, "I was born in troubled times, and when I was a teenager, I was determined to be a hero of the Xianbei people. Father and brother died on the battlefield one after another. I followed Xian Yu Xiuli, followed Ge Rong, followed Er Zhurong, followed He Bayue, and there were many difficulties and dangers, and I died for a lifetime. From Dingzhou, to Heluo, to Guanzhong. I greeted the first emperor and killed the first emperor. The world calls me and Gao Huan the two heroes of troubled times. ”

He raised his head and looked at the bright starry sky, and suddenly showed a trace of confusion in his eyes: "But I sometimes ask myself, I have left my hometown, my father and brother died early, and I am still alone, surrounded by strong enemies." Is it worth it for all I do? I can't judge. All I know is that in my heart, I still have the ambition I had when I was a teenager. I don't want to just be the son of a Wuchuan military family. I want to be a hero of the Xianbei people, I want to unify the north and wave my army to the south. I want to put an end to this troubled world and build a large, powerful empire......"

A strong empire...... Ran Ying looked up at him. The look and momentum with which he said these words almost fascinated Ran Ying. Born in troubled times, she has never seen and dare not imagine such a picture.

What does the prosperous age look like?

"When such an empire is born, when everyone will not be displaced and will be proud to be the people of a powerful empire, maybe you can ask me again if what I am carrying now is worth it."

He glanced down at Ran Ying, sighed lightly, and laughed again: "But you gentle countryman, you are really a hero mound...... always when he meets her, he thinks about something that he has and does not have, and those ambitions suddenly disappear.

Ran Ying silently did not speak. No one had ever spoken to her of such a grand ideal. She remembered Ziqing. Such a pure and beautiful Ziqing, if he was here tonight, what would he think and say?

Perhaps at the beginning, she rejected Ziqing, not only because of the emperor's marriage. What's more, what she longs for in her heart is a man like Yuwentai......

There were things she had never thought about that that gradually became clear on this night.