My grandmother Jin Xiaolou, you may be more familiar with her other name, Empress Shuyi.

Empress Shuyi is a legend of the Great Zhou, in the Great Zhou, from seventy-year-old children to five-year-old children, even if they don't know the current era name, they must have heard of the deeds of Empress Shuyi.

When I was very young, there was a Lantern Festival one year, the palace was unprecedentedly lively, and lanterns were lit everywhere, and even the westernmost bird feather tower was full of lanterns, like the stars in the sky were falling and sprinkled all over the palace.

I sat under the plum tree in front of the door of the mother's palace, the tip of my nose was fragrant, and the sound in my ears was curling, and I was dazzled, and I didn't realize that I had been carried into my father's arms.

My father, Emperor Chengzong, is the eldest son of Empress Shuyi, after the abdication of the imperial grandfather, my father and emperor followed the new policy implemented by my grandmother, prospering all industries, strengthening science, so that the Great Zhou Dynasty truly realized the prosperity of a strong country, and the world calls the present as the prosperous era of Jingcheng.

Although the name of the prosperous era is not related to the emperor's grandfather and grandmother, the father said that this prosperous era depends on the grandfather and grandmother.

"Ling'er likes to watch lanterns?"

My father looked into the distance along my eyes, and when he saw me nodding, he suddenly smiled, picked me up and walked into the hall, and greeted the queen mother, and the two lowered their heads and whispered for a while, and suddenly became busy, and changed my clothes for me.

On this cold day, although the stove was lit in the hall, I still hated to change clothes, and as soon as I took off my warm jacket, the cold wind was straight to the tender meat and drilled into my heart.

Frowning and twisting his chubby body, I didn't follow them, and I was about to break free, so I heard my father say again: "Ling'er, the lanterns outside are much better than those in the palace!" ”

Outside? I'm confused, where is it outside?

Before I could come back to my senses, I had been picked up by my father and mother, who had changed their clothes, and broke out from an inconspicuous corner through one eaves after another, and through one eaves after another, and through the red palace gates.

The first time I saw the world outside, it turned out that the roofs were not all bright yellow, but also dark brown, just like a potholed muddy field, and even green grass came out of the cracks in the eaves, swaying with the evening breeze.

When I looked up, the streets and alleys were crowded with people, and there was a lot of noise, as if hundreds of drums with cowhide were beating together, which made my ears buzz. They were laughing or hilarious, their faces were vivid and funny, and their faces were full of life, which fascinated me more than the brilliant lanterns.

Outside the palace, my father was really bold and willful, took the queen and the eldest princess, and left the palace privately before the Lantern Festival Lantern Banquet.

However, it can be regarded as a lineage, my grandmother is a bold person, she is the queen of the Great Zhou, but she has never liked to stay in the palace, I heard that two-thirds of the shops in the entire capital are in her name, and the silver she earned alone is half of the treasury of the Great Zhou.

My grandmother was both the queen and the richest man in the Great Zhou, and on a whim, she would pull out all the flowers in the imperial garden and reclaim the soil to grow food! Until now, in a few corners of the Imperial Garden, there are still potatoes and rice planted by my grandmother.

"Ling'er, come and try this roasted sweet potato!"

A warm and sweet stuff was stuffed into my mouth, the most ordinary sweet potato, just put on the fire and simply roasted, not even peeled clean. There will never be such food in the palace, the food that can enter my mouth is exquisite, if it is a roasted sweet potato, it must be coated with Jiangnan thin duck oil, on the wood with pine mountain bamboo, and slowly roasted over a fine fire.

Before serving, the skin must be peeled to the bare without hurting the slightest bit of the flesh, and then placed on a small silver or Persian glass plate with a small spoon.

The sweet potatoes in the mouth do not have the taste of Jiangnan lean duck and pine mountain bamboo, the original sweetness is all highlighted, dense and dense, and the original taste of the most ordinary food is so evocative.

I looked up in surprise and looked at my father and queen mother, who was breaking a small piece of sweet potato and blowing it to the queen mother's mouth, and the smile on the queen mother's face was sweeter than sweet potatoes.

Well, I swallowed the sweet potato and blinked.

At this moment, the father and the queen mother, just like ordinary couples on the street, have lost those complicated etiquette and rules, and return to their original appearance, the simplest and sweetest, just like sweet potatoes.

There is only one queen mother in the emperor's harem, and the queen mother often says that in such a large palace, only one woman lives in her, which seems empty and lonely.

But all the emptiness and loneliness will be filled when my father returns from the emperor's reign.

The rules of monogamy were passed down from grandparents and grandmothers.

Grandfather's harem until the abdication, there is only one grandmother, it is said that the court officials for the grandfather to recruit concubines I don't know how many folds, how many times, but grandfather's temperament is the same, cold face, even the father of such a bold man has to lower his eyes, the officials say, grandfather does not listen, no one has a way.

It is rumored that once, after the trade road was opened, Persia saw that our Great Zhou Dynasty was at its peak, so it wanted to form an alliance, and in order to show its sincerity, it sent a princess of Persia to come over and offer her grandfather as a concubine.

The hundred officials were boiling, and the plan of the Great Zhou to spread out was finally realized by one more person, but I never thought that the Persian princess had just arrived, and she didn't even enter the palace gate, so she was rewarded by her grandfather's decree to Taiwei Hushan.

The officials have all withered again......

My grandfather, except my grandmother, no one could make him do what he didn't want to do.

This is also my grandmother's ability, my grandmother seems to be able to do everything, career and love double harvest, but there is one thing, listening to my father, it has always been my grandmother's regret.

Grandmother and grandfather always wanted to have another princess.

At that time, Da Zhou already had two princes, my father and the second emperor's uncle, but there was never a princess.

When my father was ten years old, my grandmother was pregnant again, and after the doctor checked the pulse, she said that she was a princess nine times out of ten.

My grandmother and grandfather were overjoyed, and during those months, my grandmother rarely even left the palace, and only walked around the imperial garden every day, just wanting to give birth to her child safely.

But I didn't want to be in September that year, the Wuli River in the south was flooded, and the heavy rain for months not only caused the flood in the Wuli River to rise sharply, but also broke out several flash floods and mudslides on the nearby Jinjun Mountain.

The officials of the Twenty-four Cities went to treat the disaster, but they never returned, and by the time the news reached the palace, my grandmother was already five months pregnant.

At that time, my grandmother didn't know why, like a demon, like crazy, regardless of my grandfather's obstruction, she had to go to Wuli River in person to treat the disaster.

Although everyone knows that my grandmother is smart and scheming, and she is outstanding in everything she does, the front line in the disaster area is full of dangers, and my grandmother is pregnant, and anyone with a little sense knows that she can't go no matter what.

It's just that no one can stop her.

Grandfather didn't allow it, so she went secretly, and after three months, her grandfather personally found her back, and her grandmother was fine, but the child in her grandmother's womb was almost gone.

I heard my father say that my grandmother saved a child as old as the emperor's uncle on the side of Jinjun Mountain.

The child's surname was Zou, and he lived with an old man who was blind on Jinjun Mountain, and learned good medical skills, thanks to which he saved the flesh and blood in his grandmother's belly.

The grandmother wanted to take the child back to the palace to raise it, but the old man surnamed Zou didn't agree to anything, so the grandmother had to follow the grandfather back to the palace.

After returning to the palace, my grandmother has been depressed, and the flesh and blood in her belly are still a prince, which is my little imperial uncle.

In the second year, my grandfather passed the throne to my eldest son, who was only twelve years old, that is, my father, and ordered him to be assisted by three loyal ministers who had been with my grandfather, but my grandfather himself went out of the palace with my grandmother and went away to the end of the world, and no one knew their whereabouts.

The queen mother said that the palace was too big, and that her grandmother was too lonely to live alone, and that she was homesick, and that her grandfather had always taken pity on her grandmother, so he followed her and followed her back to her home in the south.

But my father and the emperor quietly told me that my grandfather and grandmother lived on Jinjun Mountain.

The grandmother was reluctant to give up the child surnamed Zou.

I think it's strange, the child surnamed Zou is as old as the second emperor's uncle, and his father is not a few years older than them, how can the grandmother be willing to give up his father and the second emperor's uncle?

"Ling'er, look! The fire dragon is coming! ”

Seeing that I was stunned, the queen mother gently patted me on the shoulder.

Looking up, a long dragon burning with raging fire jumped and tumbled, and in front of the dragon's head, a pearl was shining brightly.

The three of us snuggled up to each other, huddled in the crowd, the cries in our ears flowing like the wind.

My father said that I am most like my grandmother in terms of appearance and temperament, and I am still young, so naturally I can't understand many things, and I think that when I grow up, I will know everything.