In a blink of an eye, it's the end of the year again.

Liu Yanma...... It was the first time she spent the New Year outside the palace.

Just her and Lu Yi.

In the past Chinese New Year, there were always a lot of people and many things, so much that Liu Yan felt too noisy.

And in the past New Year, she just had to clean herself up, what to do, how to spend this year, she didn't have to worry about it.

It's different now.

For the first time, Liu Yan knew that there were so many things to arrange for the New Year, and there were so many exquisitenesses. Even if she doesn't have to do everything herself, she can't just ignore everything.

The eldest sister helped her a lot, even if it was a mess in her own hands, she didn't forget to instruct, help, and teach Liu Yan, telling her all kinds of peace and taboos, and some things about the world. In the end, he comforted her: "It doesn't matter, you have just gotten married, and it is the first time to deal with such a thing, and others will not mind too much if they are overlooked." ”

"I want to do better." Liu Yan put away the booklet in his hand: "If you really favor one over the other, no one will think about it." ”

Princess Fuyu smiled: "It's good that you can think of this." That's right, some people do think a lot, and then how many things come out of it. ”

Holding a gift list, Liu Yan asked softly: "...... over there in King An's Mansion?"

King An has actually been knighted, but Liu Yan is still used to calling King An's mansion.

If you don't say that, how can you say it?

"I still follow the old routine and add some more affordable and inconspicuous things." When Princess Fuyu mentioned this, she also lost a smile on her face: "King An is not here, and their lives are not very good." ”

Liu Yan nodded, she thought so too, so what she planned to send was not those flashy and face-saving things, but real charcoal, leather, cloth, supplements and some medicinal materials. Liu Yan heard that King An's Mansion was different from the original, because King An was bad, and there were not many people left in the mansion, except for some rough ones, there were only people around Xiao Zhu's side. There is still Xiao Zhu in King An's mansion with two young children, two concubines of King An, and a few servants to live. Xiao Zhu made the decision, locked most of the courtyards of King An's Mansion, and took the rest of the people in King An's Mansion to live in the courtyard in the northwest corner of the original King An's Mansion, living a life similar to the confinement - even if she can still go out, where can she go? There are few people left in the Zhu family, and others dare not walk around with her.

Lu Yi helped a lot.

Liu Yan found that there was probably nothing in this world that he didn't understand.

Tsk, he is also a human being, and he doesn't have a head or a heart more than others, why is he so capable?

When Liu Yan thought of this, his heart was a little sweet, and he felt that he had the ability to do it. But it's also a little sour...... was lined by this person, as if she was really lackluster, and there was nothing to do.

Hey, anyway, they're husband and wife now, and this person is good, she knows better than anyone else. And this person is hers.

The two of them did not feel lonely during the New Year.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Lu Yi accompanied her for a while to tease the newly picked cat, talked to her, and told her how he used to celebrate the New Year.

It's often alone, and you can't tell where you've been there. It could be in the mountains, it could be in a very remote unknown village.

It sounds lonely and somewhat bleak.

She asked Lu Yi, is it sad to celebrate the New Year alone?

Lu Yi thought about it seriously: "Sometimes." At the beginning, even if it was against himself, he was stubborn and didn't admit that he was alone. Later, when I got used to it, I would wonder if there would be someone with me in the future, drinking a bowl of hot soup together, sitting together, and listening to me. ”

Liu Yan listened to the sound of scattered firecrackers exploding in the distance, and asked softly, "Is it the same as what you thought at the time?" ”

Lu Yi held her hand and smiled slightly.

"I ...... Actually, it's ......" Liu Yan hesitated: "From the time I can remember, I spent the New Year at the Cao family." At that time, the father and the queen mother were not there. When I was a child, I felt that the New Year was lively, there was delicious food, there was a new dress, and my aunt also bought me a new head rope and velvet flowers, and I followed my cousin and cousin, and it was very lively. But then I felt strange that my cousin of the Wu family often played with me at the Cao family at that time, but when it came to the Chinese New Year, she was going back to the Wu family. When I get older, I will know that the New Year is to be spent in my own home, but she can go home and be with her parents, but I can't. ”

"When I entered the palace later, it can be regarded as a family reunion...... But ......"

This family reunion is a little different from what she had been hoping for when she was a child.

The family lived in different palaces, far from each other. This palace is too big, and the big Liu Yan can't use the word home to summarize it.

Everyone else can say that she is going home, but she can only say that she is going back to the palace.

Going back to the palace, not going home.

Lu Yi also asked her: "What about now?" ”

Liu Yan held his hand.

Right now...... Pretty good.

As Lu Yi said, it is good to have someone to accompany you, drink a bowl of hot soup together, and talk.

Gui Yuan came in and sent two bowls of sweet soup, added charcoal, and replied by the way: "Princess, donkey, it's snowing outside." ”

Liu Yan said on a whim: "Let's go outside and have a look." ”

Of course, Lu Yi wouldn't stop her, so he took her a cloak and wrapped it, and then the two of them went out of the house.

The snow fell lightly at first, but it didn't go far before it tightened. Snow flakes fluttered and fell silently from the sky. A layer of snow fell on Lu Yi's head and shoulders not long ago, and Liu Yan reached out to wipe it, but before she could brush it off, many snow flakes had already turned into water droplets, and a little bit of it was like dew on Lu Yi's hair.

"Cold, huh?"

Lu Yi shook his head.

"Don't lie to me, it must be cold."

Liu Yan stretched the umbrella open, this is a silk umbrella, plain noodles, the umbrella is taken by Gui Yuan when he goes out, well, it is enough to cover two people.

Lu Yi took the umbrella over.

On a winter night, the snowy Princess's Mansion was a novelty to Liu Yan, as if this was not her own home, but a completely unfamiliar place. The familiar pavilions and pavilions of the past, every grass and tree, have changed their appearance in the snow, quiet, hazy, and seem to be far and near.

"Do you smell it?"

"Well, the plum blossoms are blooming."

"Do you remember last time, we were like this, talking, there are plum blossoms, and there is snow."

Liu Yan sighed on his somewhat cold fingertips.

The flowers are as fragrant as before, but the relationship between her and Lu Yi is not as good as last year.

The fragrance of plum blossoms was exceptionally clear, just like what they had smelled in the plum grove of Chaoyun Garden. When there is no wind, the faint fragrance floats on the nose, and if the wind blows, the fragrance spreads and goes farther with the wind.

Across the wall, the sound of firecrackers rang out.

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