At the beginning of May, Jin Zhuoyan, who supervised the repair of the Empress Dowager's mausoleum in the imperial mausoleum, handed over the fold, and the Empress Dowager's mausoleum was ready.

Qin Tianjian chose an auspicious day, the emperor dropped out of the dynasty one day, sent the emperor's coffin into the mausoleum, and the king of Qin asked to stay with him for a few days, and the emperor approved.

When the night begins to fall, the area around the imperial tomb is quiet only with the gust of mountain wind and the singing of birds.

King Qin and Li Xia surrounded the tomb of the Empress Dowager Jin, talking in a low voice, walking slowly, looking slowly.

Behind the two of them, Jin Shuyan and Lu Yi were one or twenty steps behind, talking and following, behind the two of them, Gu Yuyan, the sixth young master and Guo Sheng, pointed out and introduced to Guo Sheng from time to time.

"It's an empty tomb." After a small half circle around the mausoleum, King Qin looked at the new tomb of the Empress Dowager Jin, which was still extremely bright, and was extremely sad.

"Hmm." Li Xia understood what King Qin meant, and when the Queen Mother left, her soul was scattered. "Buddhism says reincarnation, when a person dies, he should hurry up to Meng Po to drink a bowl of soup, forget the old things, and go to reincarnation like a blank sheet of paper, the six realms of reincarnation, I don't know which one I will be reborn into, the three thousand worlds, I don't know which world I will fall in."

Li Xia's words were unpleasant, and the smoky wind and birdsong carried a reassuring peace.

"Even if you are a mother and son with the former mother and son, a brother with the former brother, and a husband and wife with the former husband and wife, I don't know anything.

I don't care how the previous life was or the next, as long as this life is good and I can be at ease when I leave, it's okay.

The mother is safe to go. ”

"I know." King Qin stretched out his hand and pulled Li Xia's thin cloak, and turned sideways to block the mountain wind for her, "In this case, A-Niang also said, A-Niang said that it would be good to be able to do a good job in this life, and it would be wishful thinking in life and life." ”

"Niang Niang has great wisdom."

"Hmm." King Qin replied in a low voice, hugged Li Xia, and walked a long way forward before he changed the topic and said: "When I was young, A-Niang often watched me distracted, and I could watch it for a long time, I didn't like her looking at me like that, I couldn't breathe when she looked at me. Later, when I went to Hangzhou, when I set off for Hangzhou, along the way, I felt that A-Niang seemed to have changed, she didn't detain me so tightly, and then she almost completely let go, and she didn't look at me anymore.

Later, when I came back, for a long time, I felt that the most enjoyable time of my life was in Hangzhou for a few years, but then with you, now, I think the moment is the best. ”

"Hangzhou City." Li Xia dragged a long voice and smiled brightly. "I miss Hangzhou very much, the osmanthus cake in the Gujia dim sum shop, and the Xiangji Silver Building, all the things in his house are beautiful."

"Osmanthus cake is easy, and the one made in Guliufu is much stronger than that in the shop. Xiang Kee Silver Building? I remember. King Qin remembered that day Li Wu was holding his sister, looking up with a stupid face and a blank look, and laughed, "Your fifth brother was too honest when he was a child. ”

"Now it's honest, too. I have eaten the osmanthus cake of the ancient family, and I always feel that it is not as good as eating in Hangzhou, by the way, and Qiantang tide, it is really good. ”

"That wine shop in Hengshan County, do you remember?" King Qin smiled.

"Remember, not far from Hengshan County, there is a shop that sells Yangzhou pig's head meat, and it tastes great." Li Xia thought about the fact that she and the fifth brother were planning to move away from the family, and her smiling eyes were crooked, "At that time, the fifth brother and I often pulled your banner. ”

"What did you do badly?" King Qin's eyebrows were raised, and a smile flowed.

"Nope." Li Xia replied with a smile, "Shall we live in tents at night?" It was the first time I had spent the night in a place like this. Li Xia tightened his cloak and turned his head to look at the imperial tomb in the vast night.

"You don't have to live in a tent. There are continuous sacrifices here all year round, and the emperor has to come once or twice a year, not every time he can rush back on the same day as today. The wind is blowing, let's go back, tomorrow we will go to the mountain over there to have a look, where the Empress Dowager Li is buried. ”

King Qin walked back with Li Xia in his arms, and as he walked, he pointed to a verdant hill next to him, which was outside the imperial tomb, but he hugged and looked down at the entire imperial tomb.

"Okay." Li Xia looked at the hill from afar.

She has been to that mountain more than a dozen times, and she doesn't know if there is any difference between that mountain now and before.

Before dawn the next day, Li Xia wore a neat riding costume and went out of the courtyard with King Qin, Guo Sheng and Jin Zhuoyan walked in front, Jin Zhuoyan led the way, Guo Sheng took a long stick, kept slapping and poking both sides of the road, and several guards patted with his stick here and there.

Lu Yi and Gu Liu followed behind, Gu Liu was holding a trekking pole, and Lu Yi was holding his hands behind his back, with a relaxed attitude.

Look at the mountain running dead horse, look at the mountain from the imperial mausoleum, it seems to be very close, walk up to be far away, the pace of the group is not slow, or go straight to the near noon, the front is suddenly bright, a bluestone spread around the open space, scattered scattered with several pavilions, around the pavilion, the flowers are blooming brilliantly, this area, take care of it very carefully.

"The view is the best over there, go there and take a break, drink some tea, eat something and watch again." Jin Zhuoyan pointed to the largest pavilion facing the imperial tomb.

King Qin looked at Li Xia, Li Xia nodded, "Okay." ”

The guards and the mothers-in-law and girls who came with them hurriedly cleaned and arranged the pavilion, found a wind outlet to blow the stove, boiled water and made tea to prepare for eating.

Li Xia pulled King Qin, stood in the middle of the clearing, slowly turned around and looked at it, and sighed long, this place is exactly the same as before, even the silver cinnamon tree that grows out of the crack in the stone is exactly the same.

"It's the first time I've been here." King Qin gestured to stride to check Jin Zhuoyan everywhere, "The first Empress Dowager Li is buried here, not many people know about it, this area, this hill, does not belong to the imperial mausoleum, and the daily care here is the two families of the Empress Dowager Li when she married the Cheng family, and made an oath to guard the tomb of the Empress Dowager Li for generations." These two families have their own properties, but if there is a large amount of expenditure, it will be worshiped by the Jin family. ”

Li Xia looked at Jin Zhuoyan with the gaze of King Qin, and sighed, this matter was found out after she became the queen mother, one year after checking the expenditure of the imperial mausoleum, she asked Jin Zhuoyan, and Jin Zhuoyan only answered her very simply: This is the ancestral testament.

It was Gu Liu who told her some past events.

The Jin family's enshrinement of the property here is placed in the ancestral field, and the Jin family's ancestral field is also the ancestral field of the Empress Dowager Li.

"In her later years, the Empress Dowager Li has been in Changsha Wangfu and Mrs. Xiangu as a companion, here, after the great trip of Gaozu, the Empress Dowager Li personally watched the construction, using the private property of the Empress Dowager Li. Gaozu Mausoleum in the Imperial Mausoleum, Ah Niang said that it was a clothed mound, and Gaozu and the Empress Dowager Li were buried here. ”

King Qin and Li Xia entered the pavilion side by side.

"It's really fitting to taste this tea and drink this Ming Qian here." As soon as the two entered the pavilion, Gu Liu said with a little excitement.

"The tea you brought?" Li Xia took the tea from Duan Yan's hand, sniffed it and said with a smile.

"The princess is a true grace!" Gu Liuxian pointed his finger and praised, "Since childhood." My tea mountain came out, this spring was a cold spring, and there were very few before the Ming Dynasty, but the quality was excellent, right? ”

Seeing that Li Xia and King Qin had sipped tea, Gu Liu asked expectantly.

"Too light." Guo Sheng picked up first, "This is not good before tomorrow, the tea is less light, and the tea is more bitter." ”

"You don't feel bitter when you drink willow buds, but it's bitter when you drink this?" Gu Liu was interjected by Guo Sheng, and he didn't have a good airway.

"That's different, Liu Ya'er doesn't cost money, you are a tael of silver before the Ming Dynasty, right?" Guo Sheng disliked it, but he drank it quickly.

"Lao Guo, don't fight with Xiao Gu, come over to barbecue, if you talk about barbecue, your skills are unmatched." Lu Yi greeted Guo Sheng with a smile.

Guo Sheng immediately put down the cup, "Don't move, don't move, I'll come!" Is the blood drained? ”

"Barbecue here?" Li Xia was surprised.

"Hmm." Jin Zhuoyan, who was sitting on a bamboo chair leaning on a pillar, looked at Li Xia and King Qin who were looking at him, "The rules here are not quite the same as those of the imperial tomb, I heard Weng Weng say that when the Empress Dowager Li was still alive, she and Mrs. Tai came here, and they brought the cook with them when they returned, with meat and wine."

Weng Weng said that the Empress Dowager Li said that the sacrifice is to let the deceased see his descendants and relatives, and they are living very well, of course, they must eat, drink, and have fun. ”

Li Xia's eyebrows were raised, and after a moment, he clapped his hands and smiled: "This is too good, I will do this in the future, we!" Li Xia looked up at King Qin.

King Qin laughed out loud, "Okay, make a rule in the future, but all you and my descendants must eat and drink well when they come to worship, sing and dance, and whoever cries is unfilial." ”

"Isn't there a hall here?" Li Xia laughed for a while, looked at Jin Cunyan and asked.

This is a thing that has plagued her for more than ten years, she has been here more than a dozen times, each time it is like now, here, these pavilions stay, these are surrounded by mountains and forests, from here to the top of the mountain, and then around, she has let people explore, in addition to the mountains and forests, or the mountains and forests, is the Empress Dowager Li really buried here? Or is this whole mountain just a hall of enjoyment?

"Here it is." Jin Huoyan looked around, "I don't know where the mausoleum is, or even if it's not here." Weng Weng said that at the beginning, Gaozu was buried by the Empress Dowager Li, and after the Empress Dowager Li left, Taizu and Mrs. Taizu were buried together.

Before Gaozu and Empress Dowager Li, the Cheng family had to be buried in the south, and the Ruan family was the tomb keeper of the Cheng family in the south. ”

"Come here and do me a favor." As soon as Jin Zhuoyan's words fell, Gu Liu raised his hand and called him, "Hurry up, hurry up." ”

Jin was a little reluctant, but he still stood up and went over to help with the barbecue.

"Let's talk about the Empress Dowager Li." Li Xia pulled King Qin to sit down and handed him a cup of tea.

"First Empress Dowager Li," King Qin paused, as if he was thinking about how to say it appropriately, "It's amazing, Taizu has a notebook, and in his later years, he often mentions Empress Dowager Li, but what he said is incomprehensible, very much like gibberish." For example, Taizu said that he didn't know how many generations it would take for people to live the life of immortals, thousands of miles a day. ”

Li Xia listened intently and frowned, "Why haven't I seen this notebook?" ”

She has a copy of Taizu's notes, but how can there be such words? Which one is this?

"The Jin family kept a copy of Taizu's notes, and when I was a child, A-Niang showed it to me, and when I was in Hangzhou with A-Niang, Changsha Wangfu walked back to the water, and burned a few houses, and there was this copy." King Qin sighed.

"Alas!" Li Xia sighed regretfully, "Tell me more, what else?" If you read a book once, you can remember at least eight or nine times, and you can definitely remember all of this one, what else? ”

"Taizu and the first Tang Queen, husband and wife are deeply affectionate, when the Tang Empress was alive, there was only one Tang Empress in the Taizu harem, and after the death of the Tang Queen, the harem has been empty, Taizu said, this is the right way to be humane."

"Taizu is really amazing." Li Xia sighed from the bottom of his heart, "Like a god, a true saint." ”

"Lord Wang! Would you like to try it with the princess? This meat is best grilled and eaten freshly. In the spacious open space next to the pavilion, Guo Sheng stood up and greeted the two of them.

"Go see?" King Qin stretched out his head slightly and looked at it, and said with a smile to Li Xia.

Li Xia sniffled, smelled the pungent aroma of barbecue, a burst of liquid came up in his mouth, and he nodded hurriedly, "I'm hungry, let's go eat barbecue, I'll roast it for you." ”

When Lu Yi saw the two of them coming, he simply asked the little servant to move the chair over and gather around the oven, Guo Sheng hurriedly handed over the roasted half-cooked venison and mutton skewers to King Qin and Li Xia.

Li Xia snatched it, but didn't turn it over, and half of the meat skewers fell on the ground.

King Qin laughed out loud, and while laughing, he took the meat skewer from Li Xia's hand, "Let's do it with me, when I was seven or eight years old, I followed Ah Feng to learn to march and fight, and making my own food was the first thing to learn." ”

King Qin was indeed much more skilled than Li Xia, flipping the meat skewers in the fire, and quickly grilled a skewer and put it on a silver plate in front of Li Xia.

Li Xia picked it up unceremoniously, took a bite first, tasted it carefully, and first handed the kebab to King Qin, who was roasting meat with two hands, "You taste it." ”

King Qin took a bite of Li Xia's hand and nodded again and again.

"Your barbecue skills are really good." Li Xia looked at Guo Sheng and praised.

Guo Sheng's eyebrows suddenly fluttered, "Princess Xie praised it, once upon a time...... It's hard, and I want to eat something delicious, so I dig out my mind, and this cooking skill comes out. ”

"Fugui said that your oily noodles are also a must?" Lu Yi asked with a smile.

"It's not at all, it's just a little better than the Shanxi noodle restaurant in the capital." Guo Sheng said proudly and modestly.

"It's a little better than the Shanxi noodle restaurant, and that's it!" Gu Liu snorted, "Old Guo, you are really not modest. When will you invite me to a bowl of oily noodles? ”

"I also want to eat oily noodles." Hearing the oily noodles, Li Xia subconsciously thought of the rotten noodles.

"It's easy, I'll make oily noodles for everyone at night!" Guo Sheng immediately agreed proudly.

"Lao Guo changed his career to be a cook." Jin Zhuoyan cooked a skewer of meat, smelled it, and then stretched out his head to smell the meat roasted by Guo Sheng next to him, and then looked at the meat he roasted, with a real disgust. "Let's change, you can taste my craft."