Eighteen years ago in Yonghua City, Li Zhengchu, the second son of the Li family of Dahonglu, was a doctor praised by everyone at that time, capable and talented, and his calligraphy and painting were golden. Dahonglu Li Huanzhi has always had a headache for this son, this son has had an unusual pride since he was a child, and he has never been obedient. is obviously the smartest and most outstanding son of the Li family, but he refuses to be an official, and only loves dancing and writing. That's not all, he escaped the marriage contract that his family had engaged him, left a text message, saying that he was going to travel all over Kyushu, and directly packed his things and left with an entourage. The angry Li Huanzhi blew his beard and stared, but he was helpless.

At this time, Li Zhengchu went to Qianguo to travel.

The Qianguo is not as vast as Dayong, nor is it as strong as the Xia State, but it is the most stable country among the countries. Qianguo is located in the rich south, and Xiao Jingming, the emperor of Qianguo at that time, was also a wise monarch, treating the people leniently and benevolently, turning Qianguo into a good place that never closes its doors at night and does not leave its roads behind.

The difference between Qianguo and other countries is that in addition to the royal family, there is also a line of priests and goddesses who are comparable to it. The ancient priest and goddess shouldered the duty of divination, praying for blessings and protecting the people of the royal family, which is a special sacred place and the spiritual pillar of all the people of Qianguo. It can be said that in the Qianguo, the lineage of the priestess is more important than the royal family, and the royal family may change their surnames, but the priestess has always been worshiped by the royal families of all dynasties, and it is the lifeblood of the Qianguo. The priestess is different from the general patrilineal inheritance, which is dominated by women, and all children follow their mother's surname. The woman with the highest status is the main priest of the Qianguo: the Great Priest.

After the birth of the daughter of the Great Priest, the Great Priest will personally divinate whether she may be called the next Great Commander. If you are likely to become a big priest, you will be taken by your side by the big priest since you were a child, and you will be called a small priest. When the young priest is seventeen years old, the big priest will conduct another test on the little priest, and if he passes the test, he will be called the young priest and officially become the only heir of the great priest. Only when Xiao Si Ming is not favored by God and cannot pass the test, Da Si Ming will choose another girl as Xiao Si Ming to continue to cultivate, but this has not happened in the history of Qianguo. The great priest will only bring one young priest in his life, so this kind of practice of choosing thousands of people, passing on one daughter alone, and succeeding the mother to the dead daughter is somewhat similar to the emperor's family.

In the history of the priestess, there will also be a great priest who cannot give birth to a daughter. When the Great Priest is over forty years old and has not yet obtained a Minor Priest who meets the requirements, the Elder Commander will select a qualified Imperial Daughter from the Imperial Family to be trained as the Minor Commander. In the same way, if the emperor is unable to have a male heir, he will also choose a male heir as the successor from the priestess family. It can be said that in the Qianguo, even though the royal family and the priestess do not intermarry, the two surnames are tightly entangled, and the blood is deeply mixed with each other's descendants.

The family lives in the Goddess Palace behind the palace, and her children, except for the young priest, will stay in the palace and receive education with the prince and the princess.

It was in Jiangling, the capital of the Qianguo, that Li Zhengchu met Lan Shuyao, who had just become a young commander. Li Zhengchu was attracted by this girl like his name at first sight, and when he sang the song "Chen Feng Moonrise", he finally won a smile from the beauty:

The moon rises brightly, and the best people are shining. Shu is entangled, and he is quietly tired.

The moon rises brightly, and the best people are scared. Sorrowful and tired.

The moon rises and shines. Shu Yao is miserable, and his heart is miserable.

Li Zhengchu stopped traveling for Lan Shuyao, settled in Jiangling, and always pretended to meet Lan Shuyao by chance. Lan Shuyao also gradually fell in love with this exotic son who was brilliant and humble as jade. Despite the opposition of others, the two insisted on getting married. At that time, only two people sent blessings, one was Li Huixian, the youngest sister who had the best relationship with Li Zhengchu, and the other was Xiao Jingming, the emperor of Qianguo, who Lan Shuyao had treated as an elder brother since childhood. And when Dahonglu Li Huanzhi heard that his second son not only married a woman from another country, but even his children would follow his mother's surname, he directly broke off the father-son relationship with him.

Li Huixian quietly went to Qianguo to attend his brother's wedding, and stayed with Li Zhengchu and Lan Shuyao in Qianguo for a short time. She likes this somewhat mysterious sister-in-law very much, although she has a noble status, she is very kind to people, and she loves the people of Qianguo even more. Lan Shuyao will take Li Huixian with her whether she goes to a fun place or goes to the palace for a banquet, and she has never been estranged because she is Dayong's person.

Lan Shuyao's mother, who was the great secretary at the time, died shortly after the two got married, and Lan Shuyao became the new chief secretary of Qianguo, and Li Zhengchu was honored as the minister of the minister.

And Li Huixian married Bai Mingxi, the son of Bai Zhentang, the Marquis of Dingyuan at that time, in the second year after returning to Dayong. The two of them also lived a life similar to that of Li Zhengchu and his wife, and Bai Mingxi even swore that he would not take a concubine for her life, which was a sensation in Dayong at that time.

In the second year of Jianye, when Li Huixian, who was in Yonghua City, heard that Lan Shuyao's child was about to be born, she wrote to Bai Mingxi in Baiyuguan and said that she wanted to take a detour to see Li Zhengchu and Lan Shuyao first, and then go to Baiyuguan to find him. Bai Mingxi knew that Li Huixian had a good relationship with her brother and sister-in-law, and that Dayong and Qianguo had always coexisted peacefully and there was no danger, so he readily agreed.

When Li Huixian arrived in Gangneung City in the winter of the second year of Jianye, he found that he was more than a month pregnant, which was exactly what Bai Mingxi had when he returned to Yonghua City last time. She excitedly sent a letter to Bai Mingxi, and Bai Mingxi was also happy to hear the news, and planned to go to Jiangling to pick her up and return to Baiyuguan in person.

On the twenty-eighth day of the second year of Jianye, in the heavy snow, Lan Shuyao gave birth to a daughter. The whole Qianguo celebrated, and the birth of this baby girl meant that the great priest was likely to have a successor. Lan Shuyao and Li Zhengchu named the child Jing An. It is taken from the meaning of "the jade of Jingshan, a lifetime of Chang'an", and I wish the most precious her a lifetime of happiness and peace.

Ten days after Lan Jing'an was born, Lan Shuyao made a hexagram for her according to the rules and made a fortune. At the same time, he also made a hexagram for Xiao Jingming's heirs. I hope to speculate on the fortunes of the country through these two hexagrams.

Lan Jing'an's hexagram belongs to the secret of the Si Ming Goddess family, and the others don't know about it, only that Lan Shu'an intends to cultivate Lan Jing'an as a little Si Ming.

Another hexagram has caused a sensation in the Qianguo, this hexagram is:

Emperor Ming Wu Tang, the Quartet of the Positive Domain. Banggi thousands of miles, the people stopped. The four seas are fake. Ordered to be salty, what is Bailu.

That is, among the heirs of the Xiao family, there will be a character who will compete with Wu Tang and unify Kyushu, and this character will bring endless well-being to his people and be loved by all the people. Doesn't such a hexagram mean that it is possible for the Qianguo to annex the countries and become the overlord of Kyushu? The entire Qianguo felt that this was a blessing to Xiao Jingming, a Ming monarch, and the people rushed to tell each other, and the whole country rejoiced.

But when this rumor spread to Dayong and Xia, it caused a huge panic among Emperor Wei and Emperor Xia, does such a hexagram mean that his rule will end for the Xiao family in the future? The two lords of the country, who always fought non-stop on weekdays, suddenly united and unanimously decided to strike first, destroy the Qianguo, and kill all the descendants surnamed Xiao to prevent future troubles. Even the Xiongnu in the north heard this rumor, although they did not send troops, but they promised not to attack the two countries when Dayong and Xia attacked the Qianguo, and sent 10,000 good horses from the two countries to be war horses. In this regard, the alliance of the three countries opened the prelude to the war of Qianguo.

Dayong and Xia mobilized a million troops and attacked Qianguo at a very fast speed from the east, west, and north. Bai Zhentang, the Marquis of Dingyuan, thought that this battle was unreasonable, and just because of a rumor, hundreds of people were trapped in dire straits, which violated the way of being a king. But he was a loyal and patriotic person, and he was still ordered to set off from Baiyu Pass with his troops.

Bai Mingxi, the prince of Dingyuan, was already on his way to Qianguo to pick up his wife at this time, and he was in pain when he heard the order to let him return to the army to attack Qianguo quickly. On the one hand, his wife who was just pregnant in the enemy country, and on the other hand, he was loyal to the monarch and patriotic, and in the entanglement, he still chose his responsibility as a general, returned to the army, and sent someone to Gangneung to pick up Li Huixian.