A year later.

It's winter again. The winter in Beihu is still bitterly cold, and Xia Muyao and Huan'er are fishing on the ice in thick cotton clothes.

"Your Abba likes to fish like this in the winter, digging a hole in the ice, and the fish in it may pop out on their own." Xia Muyao held the fishing rod and said to Huan'er.

"When will Abba come back?" She sat next to Xia Muyao and asked in a milky voice.

"After a while, the sun will set, Abba will come back, we have caught the fish, will we wait for Abba to come back and drink fish soup together?" Xia Muyao responded, turned her head and smiled softly at Huan'er.

She nodded vigorously, "Well, okay." ”

The nurse on the side, Yan Ling looked at the mother and son with a smile, until they caught two fish, Xia Muyao was ready to retract the rod.

"Wait a minute, catch two more, and I'll go to your vassal king's mansion to have a fish soup to drink." Not far away, Huhao ran over while shouting.

Just now, everyone was focusing on the fish, and they didn't notice that Hu Hao was coming.

Xia Muyao didn't say anything, and sat down again, there are many fat and big fish in the still water lake, and it is not difficult to catch two more.

"Father-in-law." Huan'er had already gotten up and ran to Huhao's side.

"Good son, do you miss your father-in-law?" Hu Hao picked it up and asked.

Well. He nodded, "I think so." ”

Xia Muyao smiled helplessly in her heart, this huh, I went to the vassal king's mansion for dinner two times in three days, and I haven't seen him for a long time, so I still need to ask if I want to?

Hu Hao walked to Xia Muyao's side with Huan'er in her arms, looked at her snow-white little face hidden under her cloak and hat, and only smiled and didn't say a word.

Xia Muyao was still waiting for him to say something profligate, but he only smiled and didn't speak, which made Xia Muyao unaccustomed to it, she turned her head to look at Hu Hao, "On this cold day, don't you drink tea on the stove in the secluded platform, watch your singers sing and dance, but do you have the leisure to think about the fish soup in the Domain's Mansion?" ”

"I'm thinking about fish soup, I'm thinking about my son." Huhao looked at Huan'er and kissed him the face, and Huan'er giggled.

"I like children so much, you should find a princess to give birth to one." Xia Muyao looked at the ice surface and said without hurrying or slowing.

"What if there is no such cute child as still alive? So, it's better to get a ready-made one. Hu Hao smiled indifferently.

Xia Muyao also smiled helplessly, stopped talking, and stared at the lake seriously.

The nurse and Yan Ling are not surprised, Hu Hao and Xia Muyao are familiar with each other, and it is not once or twice that they often quarrel, this seems to be unruly, but the fifth prince who is particularly picky and difficult to serve in his bones can only obey in front of the princess of the domain, and has no temper.

Earlier, at the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, because the princess frowned at the frivolous singer beside the fifth prince, the fifth prince gave the silver to send the singer away.

Xia Muyao also felt disgusted with Hu Miao from the beginning and is now accustomed to it, because although Hu Hao is not honest in his mouth, he has always respected Xia Muyao and has never been light.

It's hard to call those singers, every time I see Xia Muyao, I am more polite and sensible than when I see Hu Hao, but I am afraid of making this princess unhappy, and the high branch that I finally climbed will be broken.

After catching two more fish, Xia Muyao took the rod, and as soon as she got up, she saw Huerhe striding over.

"It's so lively." Huerhe looked at these people on the ice and couldn't help but say.

"I still want to drink fish soup, so I'll take him to fish," Xia Muyao said and walked to Huerhe's side, "Why did you come back so early today?" ”

"I'm not busy with military affairs, so I'll come back early." Huerhe said, holding Xia Muyao's little hand in the palm of his hand and warming it, "Come out and wear cotton handguards, look at your little hands are cold." ”

"Abba." At this time, he shouted crisply.

"Your father can only see your grandma, and my father-in-law is standing here, and I don't see him say hello." Hu Hao looked at it and said sourly.

"Cousin, is this jealous with Yao'er?" Huerhe smiled, and then pulled Xia Muyao to Humi, stretched out the book and pinched Huan'er's little face.

Huan'er stretched out his little hand to Huerhe, and Huerhe hugged Huan'er from Hu'er's arms.

"Stinky boy, when I see my father, I forget my father." Huhao said and slapped it on her little buttocks.

Huan'er hugged Huerhe's neck by herself, buried her little face in Huerhe's shoulder, and smiled happily.

Seeing the appearance of Huan'er, everyone was also smiling, the guys in the dining hall took away the four fat fish, and Huerhe, Hu Hao and Xia Muyao also went back to Tengchong Courtyard together.

Halfway back to Tengchong Courtyard, I met Doya, and after a distance, Doya saw Huhao, so she and the maidservant turned around and walked back.

Hu Hao saw it, and after seeing it, he said to Xia Muyao: "Hey? Who is she hiding? ”

"Naturally, I was hiding from you, who told you to say something frivolous when I saw my sister all day?" Xia Muyao glanced at her.

"Did I say anything frivolous to her? Isn't that all the truth I'm saying? If a 23-year-old girl doesn't marry again, no one wants it. Hu Hao looked at Doya's back, and there was some regret in his tone, he really had never seen a woman more dull than Doya, "Does she live in the vassal king's mansion like this for the rest of her life?" ”

Huerhe had no words, and he never participated in all the topics related to Doya.

Seeing that Huerhe was silent, Hu Hao said on the side: "I said cousin, otherwise you will marry Doya, so that she can know the beauty of knowing the affairs of men and women." ”

Xia Muyao listened to it on the side, and immediately looked at Hu Hao with sharp eyes, "You are so kind, but you will marry yourself." ”

"Hey, I can't see that you're still a vinegar jar." Huhao laughed.

"I only have one wife and cousin in my life, Yao'er, don't talk about this kind of joke in the future." Huerhe said lightly.

"I know, I know, the whole world knows that you two are in love, right?" Hu Hao shook his head and said weakly.

Xia Muyao glanced at her again, and then stopped talking.

Hu Hao followed behind, looking at Hu Erhe holding Huan'er in one hand and Xia Muyao in the other, it was really a happy family, such a happiness, Hu Hao was also happy for them.

***

At night, Xia Muyao lay in Huerhe's arms and asked softly, "How is the sword casting now?" ”

"Three or five months will be about the same." Huerhe replied in a deep voice.

Xia Muyao was also silent. She is very conflicted, on the one hand, she hopes to succeed in forging the sword as soon as possible, so that she can compete with Dakang and rescue her, but on the other hand, if she goes to war, it means that she will go out with Huerhe, and she will leave Huan'er, no matter how things develop, she is destined to lack a corner in her heart.

"How long can this battle last?" Xia Muyao asked faintly.

"It's every six months, and it's it for five years in three years." Huerhe replied softly.

Xia Muyao sighed slightly, hugged Huerhe's shoulder tightly with her little hand, and stopped talking, but she was thinking in her heart that Gu Er was now sixteen months old, and it was time for him to stagger and babble, he should be able to call Zhao Yuanting his father, right?

It's really ironic, she and Huerhe's children would call Zhao Yuanting their father......

Just when Xia Muyao was thinking to herself, Gu Er, who was far away in Dakang, was still not asleep at the moment, he stayed with Zhao Yuanting in Si Yao Palace, Zhao Yuanting took the fold in Si Yao Palace and criticized it, while Gu Er sat aside, watched quietly, and stretched out his little hand to pull Zhao Yuanting's clothes from time to time.

"Father, call me Father." Zhao Yuanting put down the cinnabar pen and turned his head to Gu Er.

Gu Er was a little sleepy, but she was still in good spirits and shouted vaguely: Father.

Zhao Yuanting was very happy, picked up Gu Er, walked slowly in Si Yao Palace, and said to Gu Er as he walked: "The step-son is getting stronger and stronger day by day, and in a few years, my father should not be able to hold you." ”

Gu Er kept looking at Zhao Yuanting with her eyes open, and at first she smiled slightly at Zhao Yuanting, but then she was sleepy and wrote it on her face, her eyes were hazy, and she fell asleep little by little.

Gu Er, who was asleep, was very cute, and Zhao Yuanting looked at him sleeping, but he felt that he couldn't see enough.

After Gu Er slept soundly, Zhao Yuanting gently put him on the bed.

"This bed, once slept with your mother, the first time my father saw your mother was in this palace, your mother was woken up from a nap, before she got up, your father had already walked in, lifted the thin veil in front of the bed, your mother was simply shocked." Zhao Yuanting looked at Gu Er who was sleeping and said softly to himself.

Gu Er was still asleep.

Zhao Yuanting stretched out his hand and touched Gu Er's little face, "Ji'er, you are very much like your mother." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Yuanting got up, walked to the porch, and said to Li Fusheng, who had been waiting there: "The prince will sleep with me tonight, let the nurse go back." ”

"Yes." Li Fusheng hurriedly bent over and went down to give the order.

Li Fusheng was amazed as he walked, the emperor was simply incomparable to the second prince, and the other three children had never had such an opportunity to spend time with the emperor.

The emperor named the second prince Zhao Ji again, which has an obvious meaning of inheritance, and I think that these two princes will be the crown prince of Dakang in the future.

Because of Zhao Yuanting's preference, the Internal Affairs Office was concerned about everything in Siyao Palace, which was several times better than Fengyi Palace. Zhang Yaxian naturally knew all this, she secretly endured this breath, and just waited for the opportunity to remove Gu Er's thorn in her eye.

***

Beihu. Yancheng.

Before the sky was bright, Huerhe had already gotten up and left the hot bed, and Xia Muyao, who was soft and soft, got dressed and went out to practice.

Normally, Xia Muyao would have been asleep, and when she woke up, it was already sunset, and Huerhe had already gone to the barracks.

And this morning, Xia Muyao woke up, put on her clothes, quietly went to the Huerhe practice venue, and stood aside and watched him quietly.

In the unusually cold temperature of the morning, Huerhe wore a thin coat, brandished the long sword in his hand, and practiced one move at a time.

Xia Muyao rarely watched Huerhe's morning exercises, but she knew that the man beside him was like a mountain when he was silent, but when he acted, he was like an eagle.