Li Xia got off the bus at the gate of Qing'an Palace, stopped, and turned his head to look around.

Qing'an Palace is already a little dilapidated, the faded palace walls, the roof with a few thin weeds, and the spine beasts are already damaged, but they still sit quietly in the moonlight, indifferently watching the world change.

Li Xia raised his head and looked at the round, silver-like moon, tonight, this moonlight, it's really good.

After a moment, Li Xia retracted his gaze, lifted his skirt, and slowly walked up the steps and entered Qing'an Palace.

Guo Sheng wore a moon-white gown, carried a small suitcase, was four or five steps behind, and followed all the way.

Chengying walked in the front, passing through three or four palace gates, Chengying stood in front of the last palace gate with his hands down, bowed down and let Li Xia in.

Li Xia crossed Chengying and entered the palace gate, and Guo Sheng followed.

There is a large garden in the palace gate, on one side of the garden, in a bend of the lake, the lotus leaf field, although neglected to take care of, in the moonlight, the whole garden has a kind of vitality, a different kind of beauty.

On the edge of the lake, outside a pavilion, Jiang Yanshi, who was leaning on a brocade couch, propped up his upper body slightly and looked at the palace gate.

Seeing that it was Li Xia, Jiang Yanshi's eyes narrowed slightly, opened for a moment, and looked at her carefully.

Li Xia wore a bamboo green long coat, a tea white bandeau, a tea white skirt with a very wide skirt, embroidered with silver coins and a hundred butterflies to wear flowers, between actions, the silver coins reflected the moonlight, and the silver butterflies flickered and flew.

Jiang Yanshi laughed, her body was really in line with his heart.

Li Xia met Jiang Yanshi's gaze and smile, walked four or five steps in front of the brocade couch, and bent his knees with a smile.

Maple Leaf, who was standing next to him, glared at Li Xia, with a trace of horror in his stunned expression.

"Bring me a chair." Li Xia turned his head to look at the maple leaf and commanded with a smile.

Maple immediately looked at Jiang Yanshi, who smiled and waved at him, "See what I'm doing?" Didn't you hear the princess's commands? ”

Li Xia turned around, stood in front of Jiang Yanshi's couch, turned around and looked around, "Looking at the garden under the moon and this curved lake from here, it is really excellent." ”

"I calculated, it's been these two days, I didn't expect you to come in person." Jiang Yanshi said, squinting at Guo Sheng who was standing next to the pavilion with his hands down and the small bag in Guo Sheng's hand.

"I thought, I thought a long time ago, if there was a day today, I would definitely come and see you off in person. If I want to travel far away and be accompanied by the prince, I don't need you to send me off. ”

Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi and smiled.

Maple quickly moved a chair over, hesitated, and put it not far from the couch. Retreated to the opposite side of Guo Sheng, stood with his hands down, his eyes fell on the small suitcase, and slowly moved away after a while.

"Thank you." Jiang Yanshi slowly turned the folding fan in his hand, watched Li Xia sit down, and said slowly.

"For my own sake." Li Xia smiled.

Jiang Yanshi raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Then thank you even more." ”

Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi's flying eyebrows, looked away for a moment, and smiled without speaking.

"Outside, it's all refreshed? Has the date of enthronement been set? Jiang Yanshi was silent for a moment, turned the folding fan, and asked idly.

"Well, I brought a copy of the ......."

"I don't want to see it, you can talk about it." Jiang Yanshi interrupted Li Xia's words.

"Wei Xiang is still Wei Xiang, several Xianggong, Shangshu, or Xianggong and Shangshu, oh," Li Xia paused, "Zheng Zhiyuan died under escort......"

"Escort to death?" Jiang Yanshi laughed out loud, "I was abrupt, you went on to say that since Zheng Zhiyuan is dead, he really has to say so." ”

"Escorting to death, it's good for the Zheng family. The fourth child entered the empty door, and before the emperor left, he entrusted the government to the prince, and that's it. Li Xia said, laughing.

"What about the fifth? Keeping the whitewash of the peace and highlighting the virtues? ”

"Well, I'll have to keep one. Besides, I promised him. ”

Jiang Yanshi was silent for a moment, then pouted and said, "How many days has this hot day been placed?" It stinks when it's closed, right? ”

"It was closed the next day, and it didn't stink much." After a pause, Li Xia added, "I didn't enter the palace, thinking it shouldn't stink too much." The weather is too hot, so you can't put it more, besides, the court and the central government will be pacified on the same day, and there is no need to put more. ”

"The prince rebelled?" Jiang Yanshi leaned at Li Xia, Li Xia met his gaze, his eyebrows raised slightly, "Isn't it?" ”

Jiang Yanshi tilted his head back, and after a moment, he laughed loudly, shaking his head while laughing, "No, there is no lie at all." Who killed the emperor? Guo Sheng or Lu Yi? ”

"General Lu is not suitable." Li Xia smiled.

Jiang Yanshi propped up his upper body slightly, turned his head to look at Guo Sheng, Guo Sheng met Jiang Yanshi's gaze and bowed in greeting.

"This capital, except for the Jiang family, is celebrating the new dynasty with joy?" Jiang Yanshi retracted his gaze and looked at Li Xiadao.

Li Xia thought about it and nodded.

"How is the Jiang family now?" Jiang Yanshi's question, no emotion could be heard.

"Surrounded by a group, I just want to ask you, what do you think the Jiang family should do?" Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi and asked seriously.

Jiang Yanshi looked at her obliquely, "This time, if it is the crown prince who ascends the throne, then who in the Jiang family will enjoy this glory and get a rich grace?" ”

"There will be a lot of people, almost all adult men and women." After a moment, Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi, and his tone revealed indescribable complex emotions.

"To accept the glory, you have to accept the defeat and kill them all." Jiang Yanshi happily shook off the folding fan.

"Okay." For a moment, Li Xia answered a good word very simply, although it was low. "Where's Mrs. Wei?"

The folding fan in Jiang Yanshi's hand froze, and the whole person froze, and after a while, he sighed lowly, "Can you send her back to Siming Mountain?" ”

"Okay." This time, Li Xia replied quickly and crisply.

"Thank you." For a long time, Jiang Yanshi slowly took a breath and thanked him in a low voice.

"Over the years, I have often wondered if my life would have been better than now without me." For a long time, Jiang Yanshi slowly turned the folding fan, looked blankly at the point where he didn't know, and said in a low voice.

"Daddy is distressed that the fifth brother is leaving, and the eldest aunt persuaded me, saying that children give their parents as much pain as they do, and they give their parents as much happiness as they want." Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi, who looked dazed and worried, and a sour feeling surged in his heart.

Jiang Yanshi was silent for a moment, looked at Li Xia, and hung his head as if he didn't have anything, "I'm sorry about your fifth brother." ”

"How can I blame you for the fifth brother's matter? If you want to blame, you can only blame me, blame us. My fifth brother and I, you, and the prince, many people, everyone chose this path, nine deaths and one life, life and death, it is no wonder that others. ”

Li Xia sighed slowly, the path they chose by themselves naturally had to bear it themselves.

"In this case, A-Niang also said it." The two were silent for a long time, and Jiang Yanshi's tone rose slightly, as if he wanted to provoke the dullness between him and her, "It was when I was making a fuss about going out to study in Siming Mountain Zhuangzi, Ah Niang said that if I walked into the Jiang family, I would go to the ring, and if I got into the ring, I would be willing to gamble and lose, and win life if I lost or lost." ”

Jiang Yanshi's words paused, for a moment, laughed, and spread his hands, "Uncle is right, I am the Jiang family, from the bottom of my bones, I said to A-Niang at the time, this is very fair, I like this, I want to kill them, kill them all!" ”

Jiang Yanshi laughed as he spoke, "Even now, I don't think there's anything wrong with it, people don't live to live long, right?"

I walked out of Siming Mountain, walked into the capital, met the prince, and later met you, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, I began to hold the Jiang family, and later I held the power in my hands, and I dispatched the money and food of the entire empire, calmly, and never lost the deadline. Although this life is not long, it is lively and exciting, I think this is very good. ”

"It's not about living long, Bai Qiao also said it." Li Xia laughed.

"Did you bring Bercho over?" Jiang Yanshi suddenly asked.

Li Xia shook his head, "No." After a pause, Li Xia raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked at Jiang Yanshi with a bit of banter, "The matter of the Bai family, speaking of which, it is to be entrusted to your aunt's blessing, your aunt was going to take advantage of the Bai Jingning family to go south to take up the post to rob and kill the Bai family's father and son, this incident happened to let Guo Sheng meet, it can be regarded as saving the Bai family's father and son, and since then there has been a relationship." ”

Li Xia's words paused, looked at Jiang Yanshi, and said in his words: "Bai Qiao has already resigned from the post of commander of the capital. ”

"My aunt is too grumpy. At that time, I told my aunt that the Bai family's marriage to the Su family is not necessarily a joint venture with the Su family, but we have to take a look. ”

"It's true that it's not joining forces with the Su family, the Bai family loves the child very much, and they marry the Su family, but it's just because Bai Yue loves Su Ye, that's it." Li Xia thought of the dead Bai Yue and the monk Su Ye, and sighed lowly.

"In the Jiang family, there has never been such a thing, so my aunt can't think of it, I think about it, but I think it's ridiculous, everyone gets married, there is a lot to consider, but I love ...... without you."

Jiang Yanshi was halfway through his words, fell silent for a while, and said abruptly: "The day after the Shangyuan Festival that year, I told A-Niang that when I walked out of Siming Mountain and walked into the Jiang family, it was the most right thing I did, because at that time, I could decide my marriage, who I wanted to marry......"

Jiang Yanshi smiled abruptly, "I still haven't been able to marry back." ”

Li Xia looked at him for a moment, looked away, and looked at the lotus leaves swaying leisurely in the lake.

"What's going on with the Gu family?" Jiang Yanshi's voice was slightly raised, cutting off the topic just now.

"The Gu family," Li Xia pursed her lips and laughed, "Niang Niang said once, saying that the Jiang family is a new upstart, and she knows too little. ”

Jiang Yanshi raised his eyebrows, snorted, and arched his hand, "I want to hear it." ”

"How the Gu family arose, have you always heard of it?" Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi and smiled.

"Because there is a Wenqu star?"

"It's because the ancient family raised the Empress Dowager Li, and this Wenqu star appeared in front of the world in the hands of the Empress Dowager Li. Arino history said that the three small words of the ancient champion were the handwriting of the Empress Dowager Li, and the Changsha palace received a codex of the former Mrs. Gutai, which mentioned these three small words, and said that these three small words were the greatest gift of the Empress Dowager Li to the ancient family. ”

Jiang Yanshi's eyebrows raised when he heard this, and he folded his fan and clapped his palms, "Interesting, you go on." ”

"The Gu family probably knows a little bit about it. For more than 100 years, the ancient family has always strictly adhered to the family rules set by the Empress Dowager Li, and never married with the royal family, but the family rules of the ancient family, in addition to the Empress Dowager Li, there is another one, which has only been passed down by word of mouth among the heads of the family in the past dynasties, and this one was set by Mrs. Yan. ”

Li Xia's words paused, looked at Jiang Yanshi, who raised her eyebrows and signaled her to hurry up, pursed her lips and smiled: "Mrs. Yan confessed, if there is a girl from the Li family in Xiali Town who wants to get involved in the emperor's throne, the Gu family can only look at it. ”

Jiang Yanshi's two eyebrows flew up and fell, and he snorted, then shook his head and laughed, "It's really interesting, it's ridiculous, it's interesting, that Empress Dowager Li, is it really that magical?" I've read a lot of her biography, it's amazing. ”

"I think that the real magic of Empress Dowager Li is not known to the world." Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi with a smile.

Jiang Yanshi met Li Xia's gaze, "I can make you say that, I think it's shallow." This Mrs. Yan is interesting, just from this confession, she is not a safe person, she is too superstitious about the girl of the Li family in Xiali Town......"

Before Jiang Yanshi finished speaking, he laughed, shaking his head while laughing, "It's me who is stupid again, it's not that I'm too superstitious, but, it's too prescient, you are the first girl from the Li family to reach out for the throne in this dynasty, brother to brother, so stable, hey!" Really, this Mrs. Yan is amazing!

What about the Lu family? Before the Empress Dowager Zheng was alive, there was a General Lu by her side, and later Lu Yi entered Beijing and followed the Empress Dowager Jin, what kind of family rule is this? ”

"Hmm. The ancestor of the Lu family is the senior brother of Gaozu, I heard that the temperament and temperament are very strange, when Gaozu took the Empress Dowager Li to avoid the south, the ancestor of the Lu family was ordered to stay and help Taizu achieve great things.

Now the inner guard in the palace is the ancestor of the Lu family, who was ordered by the Empress Dowager Li to create it single-handedly, and the inner guard only guards the emperor alone, only guards, and does not do anything else. ”

Jiang Yanshi was stunned, "Don't do anything else?" ”

"Well, that Eunuch Cui, who has been by the emperor's side for decades, have you seen him do anything else? The emperor inherited the ancestral training, and he has not set a precedent for instructing the inner guards to do other things, the leader of the inner guards, the master and apprentice, the emperor can disagree, but he can't appoint, and he can't appoint.

The method of training newcomers by the inner guards is exquisite, and only the inner guards know best. I don't know very well.

These rules are exquisite, from the ancestor of the Lu family to today, there is almost no change, the method of training newcomers in the inner guards, and the method of training the children of the Lu family, in the same vein, after the death of the Lu Ye next to the Empress Dowager Zheng, he brought into the guards, and many of them made up for the inner guards. ”

Jiang Yanshi's eyes narrowed slightly, and he sighed as if he didn't have anything.

"Eunuch Cui didn't fail you." Li Xia heard Jiang Yanshi's sigh, and explained with a smile, "But if he breaks the rules, he can be killed."

The ancestor of the Lu family was later instructed by the Empress Dowager Li to retreat to the south, taking over the southern departments for the Cheng family and the Bai family, and guarding the southern end of the empire. ”

Jiang Yanshi frowned slightly, and looked at Li Xia with some puzzlement.

"Each generation of the head of the Lu family, after taking over the position of the head of the family, will go to the capital to assist the queen, or the queen mother, once assisted, the whole Lu family will be loyal to him for the rest of his life." Li Xia explained.

"When Lu Yi arrived in the capital, the queen was her aunt!" Jiang Yanshi said quickly.

"But there is also Jin Niangniang, after they all have children, the Lu family can choose one of them to assist, and it depends on General Lu's own mind who to choose." Li Xia paused, his eyes narrowed slightly and relaxed, "General Lu's uncle, who has assisted the Empress Dowager Xianzheng for decades, was killed by the Empress Dowager Xianzheng the day before the Empress Dowager Xianzheng died of illness. ”

"I see." Jiang Yanshi sighed, "It's all a debt." ”

"Well, by now, everything that should have been paid back has been returned."

Jiang Yanshi squinted slightly, thought about it, and laughed, "You say that, I feel much better, there are too many debts, and I can't blame me." ”

"Yes." Li Xia also laughed.

"This rule was also set by the Empress Dowager Li first?" Jiang Yonsei was full of interest.

"Yes." Li Xia nodded.

"Amazing!" Jiang Yanshi patted the folding fan, "No wonder you respect this Empress Dowager Li so much, it's amazing." You're right, in comparison, the Jiang family is indeed shallow and too arrogant. ”

"It can't be said that it is not easy for the Jiang family to rise in just a few decades. By the way, I brought some good tea, and wine, and I'm a little thirsty, do I want tea or wine? Guo Sheng's tea is also very passable. Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi and asked.

"It's my rudeness." Jiang Yanshi sat up straight and beckoned to Maple Leaf, "Coincidentally, I just asked someone to go back to the house today to get some new tea from Siming Mountain, and I will make tea for you to drink, how about it?" ”

"Okay, I can't ask for it." Li Xia smiled in response, his heart ached, and his eyes almost poured out.

Jiang Yonsei simply ordered Maple Leaf to carry away the brocade couch and chairs, spread a thick mat in front of the pavilion, and set up the tea table.

Jiang Yanshi sat behind the tea table, roasting tea and grinding tea, and Li Xia sat cross-legged on the side of the tea table, looking at Jiang Yanshi who was making tea slightly.

"I heard that your aunt loves peonies the most?" Jiang Yanshi was grinding tea while gossiping with Li Xia.

"Hmm."

"My aunt also likes peonies, I just know how to walk, I often follow my aunt from the back of the villa, through the peony bush, to the tea garden, between the tea trees, but where there are some gaps are planted peonies.

Peonies are very easy to raise in the capital, but they are difficult to raise in Siming Mountain, but the peonies in the tea garden, each one is very good.

When picking spring tea, the peony is in full bloom, A-Niang took me, watching the woman in the tea garden pick tea, it was a long time, A-Niang said, when drinking tea, I thought that this tea was picked by those cheerful girls in the peony flowers, and this tea had the fragrance of peony flowers. ”

Jiang Yanshi's tone was brisk.

"Well, I seem to smell the scent of peony flowers." Li Xia snorted slightly.

"This year's tea, the floral fragrance is indeed stronger than in previous years, very good, you can taste it." Jiang Yanshi made a cup of tea and pushed it in front of Li Xia.

Li Xia picked up the cup, smelled the tea, blew it gently, took a sip slowly, and narrowed his eyes in enjoyment.

Jiang Yanshi looked at Li Xia with a good look, looked at her with a look of enjoyment, looked away with a smile, lowered his head slightly, the smile on his face was a little condensed, this tea, he was the last time to make it, and she was the last time to taste it.

"Have you ever seen snow in Yishan?" Jiang Yanshi raised his head again, the condensation on his face had disappeared, and his tone was still brisk.

"No, when I was in Hengshan County, I saw the snow in the West Lake once, it was better than the ink paintings, and the snow in Yishan was also like the snow in the West Lake?" Li Xia sipped his tea and asked with a smile.

"I've been to West Lake, and the snow ......" Jiang Yanshi thought about it sideways, "I can imagine that such landscapes and trees, falling on a layer of snow, are indeed extremely beautiful, graceful and delicate beauty, the snow in Yishan is different, it is a desolate and lonely beauty, you must like it, others may not, however, I am afraid that you will not have the opportunity to see the snow of Yishan in the future." ”

"yes, you can't go around like you used to." Li Xia sighed.

"Ah Xia, did you want to marry King Qin because of this imperial power?" Jiang Yanshi asked suddenly.

"It's not." Li Xia shook his head and was silent for a moment before continuing: "At that time, I felt that if I didn't marry the prince, he would die, and the thought of him dying made me sad. ”

"Didn't you think about me, then?" After a while, Jiang Yanshi asked quietly.

"Nope." After a while, Li Xia glanced at Jiang Yanshi and replied with lowered eyes.

"Ugh." Jiang Yanshi let out a long sigh, "Axia, I feel a little sad when you say that. ”

Li Xia lowered his eyes and slowly finished drinking a cup of tea, Jiang Yanshi also finished drinking the cup of tea, put down the cup, looked at Li Xia and asked, "When will you enter the palace?" The date is set? ”

"Well, the day after tomorrow."

"Back to all this nonsense." Jiang Yanshi spread his hands and smiled bitterly, "Speaking of which, there are a few small things that I want to entrust to you, and only you can entrust them." ”

Li Xia bowed slightly and motioned for him to say.

"That stupid monk in Fayun Temple, you take care of one or two for me, in fact, I don't like the peonies he raises very much, they are too ingenious, far less good than those free peonies under the tea trees in Siming Mountain."

"Okay."

"There are still some ...... who have followed me for a young age" Jiang Yanshi's words paused for a while before continuing: "Poor man, to live is to die, there is no name for a long time, after I die, these people will be handed over to you, as you resettle, you can treat the best." ”

Li Xia was silent for a moment and nodded, "Okay." ”

Jiang Yanshi raised his head slightly, looked at the lake, and the cold moonlight, and for a while, he smiled a little self-defeatingly: "No, there are only these two little things to entrust." ”

"Leave your aftermath to ...... Maple leaf? Li Xia glanced at the maple leaf standing outside the pavilion with his hands down.

"Okay." Jiang Yanshi replied extremely simply, "Thank you." ”

"There is a way of gods and ghosts." Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi, and said lightly and slowly, "People have three souls and five spirits, and life and death may be the beginning of an adventure." ”

"According to what you say, that person should also have a past life and a future life." Jiang Yanshi didn't know what to think, laughed, for a moment, the smile stopped, looked at Li Xia with a serious expression, and leaned forward slightly, "Ah Xia, if there is an afterlife, will you marry me?" ”

"Okay." Li Xia met Jiang Yanshi's gaze and answered quickly and crisply.

Jiang Yanshi's eyebrows suddenly fluttered, and he sighed happily, "I can't wait." ”

Li Xia looked at him for a moment and looked away.

"What time is it?" Jiang Yanshi looked at Maple Leaf and asked.

"Yin Zheng ......" Maple Leaf didn't finish speaking, and his throat choked.

"I don't want to see the sunrise again." Jiang Yanshi looked at Li Xia indifferently and said with a smile.

"Okay, let them send the fragrant soup to ......" Li Xia stood up, and before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Jiang Yanshi waving his hand, "No, that's it, here," Jiang Yanshi pointed to the placket of his clothes, "It's your breath everywhere, it's best to go like this, in the next life, so that you can recognize me." I, of course, can recognize you. ”

"Okay." Li Xia's throat choked violently, and he spoke after a moment, "Then I'll go, I hope you have an afterlife like me, and I hope the afterlife is your afterlife." ”

"Thank you." Jiang Yanshi straightened his clothes, sat upright, looked up at Li Xia, and smiled brightly.

Li Xia looked at him, took a step forward, bent down, kissed him lightly on the forehead, straightened up, turned forward, and walked away without looking back.

Jiang Yanshi looked at Li Xia's back with a good look, and only when Li Xia was out of sight did he turn his gaze and look at Guo Sheng.

Guo Sheng hurriedly took a few steps into the pavilion and bowed slightly, "It is an honor to be able to wait for the son to go on the road." ”

"I'm glad you sent me away." Jiang Yanshi looked at Guo Sheng with a smile and stretched out his hand.

Guo Sheng took out a glass of wine from the extremely small box in his hand, put down the box, and presented the wine to Jiang Yanshi with both hands.

Li Xia's footsteps were extremely fast, out of Qing'an Palace, Lu Yi stood outside the gate of Qing'an Palace, King Qin flashed out of the shadow next to the cart, Li Xia was slightly stunned, took two steps forward, and threw himself into King Qin's arms.

The curtain of the car was lifted, King Qin helped Li Xia get into the car, and he followed closely, Li Xia was next to King Qin, moved, squeezed into his arms, and put his head on King Qin's chest, King Qin reached out to hold her.

The car shook a few times and slowly moved forward.

Li Xia pulled King Qin's clothes and lay down, "I'm very tired and want to sleep for a while." ”

"Okay." King Qin hugged Li Xia, followed her to lie down, hugged her from behind, and took her into his arms, Li Xia curled up a little, squeezed into King Qin's arms, and closed his eyes.

The car walked very slowly and steadily, and slowly entered the Qin Wangfu, and the sky was already bright.

Lu Yi walked to the side of the car, lifted the curtain and looked at it, lowered the curtain, motioned to the little maid to take the horse, and stood in front of the female wall full of roses with his hands, and together with the blooming roses, he silently looked at the quiet cart.

A gust of wind passed, and the rose petals that blew flew all over the sky, slowly falling on the car and the ground.

The delicate and prosperous on the women's wall fell in a blink of an eye, leaving only the wall full of green, and the rose petals fell layer by layer on the car and the ground, like snow.