In the sixth year of Qingyuan, the situation changed dramatically, and the country changed hands. King Mingyang led his army into the capital and forced the emperor to abdicate. The fierce fighting between the two sides lasted for half a month, and the former prime minister's internal and external cooperation, the people in the city were disheartened, and the Imperial Forest Army was finally defeated on the last day of June. A few days later, the emperor hanged himself in the palace, the queen mother died violently, and King Mingyang finally ascended the throne of his second brother and declared emperor king. Thus began an era of dictatorship and dictatorship.

At this time, Luoyang City was in dire straits, and the people were struggling to make a living. And Lin'an City, which is not far from this, is a rare and clean place, with thousands of lights, singing and dancing, no different from usual. On this day and night, Chang'an and Chuluo boated on the lake, drank and admired the moon, looked at the direction of the capital, and their hearts were gathered in one place.

Chu Xun, the king of Mingyang, is Chu Luo's fourth brother and the brother of a mother's sibling. About Chu Xun, Chang'an has not heard Chu Luo mention him much, since Chu Luo got the fief of Lin'an, he rarely enters the palace, and rarely participates in the affairs of the palace, compared to siblings, Chu Luo is biased towards his honest and faithful second brother, after learning the news of the death of the second brother, Chu Luojing felt sad for a long time. Today, the Empress Dowager Xuan has only two sons under her knees, the eldest son became the emperor, and the younger son should naturally be promoted to the rank of knight, but no matter how many times the Empress Dowager sent someone to Luoyang, Chu Luo said that he was sick and did not see it, but he was unheard of.

"I don't know until today how big your heart is." Chang'an said to Chu Luo.

"How old?" Chu Luo smiled and slowly approached her.

Chang'an blushed all of a sudden, and pushed him with a smile, "It's not serious." ”

Chu Luo laughed loudly and took the beauty into his arms, "I don't want to be with those things in the court, the fourth brother wants to be the emperor, so let him go." ”

When Chang'an heard this, he only snuggled in Chu Luo's arms, and smiled dumbly, marrying such a carefree prince, I really don't know if it's a blessing or a curse.

When the two of them thought that life would go on as usual, they didn't realize that everything had completely changed one day after March.

On the first morning after the autumn solstice, Chang'an was washing and dressing up under the service of the maids, and everything was as usual. Suddenly, her personal maid Han Yan hurriedly ran in from outside the hall, and before Chang'an could speak, Han Yan fell to her knees with a thud.

"Queen Mother...... The Queen Mother is here......"

At this time, Shen Changan didn't realize that her life was about to change dramatically from this moment on.

The emperor was assassinated the day before yesterday. The assassin was caught on the spot and committed suicide by biting his tongue. Chang'an also expected this, after King Mingyang captured the city and sat on the throne, he began to massacre the cronies and important ministers of the previous dynasty, whether they surrendered or not, they were killed. Not only that, but many civil ministers and military generals who fought the world with him could not escape this catastrophe, and in January, the bloody storm inside and outside the imperial city was unspeakably miserable. After the queen mother learned that her eldest son died in Huangquan, she couldn't care about being sad and sad, took a few palace maids and eunuchs, left the palace overnight, and fled all the way to Lin'an City.

When Chang'an finished dressing up and came to the main hall of the palace with cold smoke, she saw Chu Luo's brows tightly locked, and Concubine Li Shushen was already sitting on one side, and there was a dead silence in the hall. She greeted the Queen Mother and sat down on the side of the princess.

"Luo'er, now that there are internal and external troubles in the palace, it is really not appropriate to postpone it, so let's enter the palace with the mourning family one day."

Enter the palace.

These two words exploded in Chang'an's mind like a thunderbolt.

No one told her what had happened before she came. On the way from her dormitory to here, it was only 400 meters away, and she also thought about the Queen Mother's intention, but when her conjecture was really confirmed, she was at a loss.

She looked up at Chu Luo, he was still frowning, even someone like Chang'an who was familiar with him, couldn't guess what he was thinking at this moment.

Back in the hall, Chang'an didn't say a word, the maids, you look at me, I look at you, and they didn't dare to speak, they all stood aside timidly.

She wanted to go to Chu Luo at this time. But what can you say when you find him? She knew that he must be very annoyed at this time, and that her going would only add another fire. But if she didn't go to him, she was flustered.

Chu Luo didn't like the throne of the Son of Heaven, she knew that. All he likes is to enjoy himself. Chu Luo once told her that he wanted to be a hermit, go to the fields to farm and fetch water, and live a life in paradise. And then he really did it. One day he took Chang'an with him, and the two of them really went to the mountains to be an ordinary couple, if it weren't for Chang'an's persuasion, he would really have lived in the mountains for a lifetime.

He was inherently unfit to be a prince, let alone an emperor.

Chang An got up and walked to the backyard, and when he went out, he saw Chu Luo sitting under the peach tree with a smile on his face. Chang'an was startled, looked back at a few maids who had already blushed, and was so angry that he didn't know what to say.

Chu Luo stepped forward in three steps and two steps, picked up Chang'an, didn't care about her babbling and shouting, walked straight out of the palace, and put her in the carriage outside the door.

"What are you doing?" Chang'an's eyes widened.

"Take you somewhere."

The carriage stopped in front of the residence of Governor Shen Tunan. This is where Shen Changan lived before he left the pavilion.

When Mrs. Shen saw Chu Luo and Chang'an, she was startled at first, and then immediately ordered the people in the mansion to serve tea and vegetables, and finally instructed, "Go and clean up the room in the East Pavilion." Turning to Chu Luo, he asked with a smile, "Do you want to stay?" “

Chang'an turned her head to look at Chu Luo, she didn't know what this man was thinking at this moment.

Chu Luo smiled disappreciably, "I want to stay." ”

At this time, Xiao Changle suddenly ran out of the house, dragging Chang'an's clothes and calling "sister" vaguely, Mrs. Shen's face turned red, and she told the maid to carry Changle into the house, and then said to Chu Luo with a smile, "I'm afraid the prince is tired, go into the house and rest." ”

The huge Shen Mansion is extremely deserted at this time. In the past, when Chang'an lived here, he didn't feel it, but now when he came back, he realized that this place didn't look like a home at all, and since ten years ago, it hasn't looked like it at all.

At night, Chang'an wore Chu Luo's clothes and read a book under the oil lamp. When it was quiet, the door was opened with a "creak", and the sleepy Chang'an was suddenly awakened.

Mother Shen walked in with a plate of sugar crisp.

"Thinking that you and the prince didn't have much dinner, they must be hungry at this time."

Chang An shook his head, "I'm not hungry, leave it to him." ”

Mrs. Shen put down the sugar crisp and her eyes fell on Chang'an's cloak, "The prince treats you really well...... But the love of children is not necessarily a long-term solution, men are ambitious, I believe you should understand......"

Chang'an was silent. Why didn't she know these truths? But who understands what she is struggling with in her heart. Chu Luo didn't like the palace, he wanted to break free from that cage, but Chang'an didn't. She was full of awe, even admiration, for the nine-story palace in Luoyang City. In the final analysis, Shen Changan is just a little woman. Now there are only three women in the mansion of Chu Luo, the king of Lin'an, concubine Li Shushen, Chu Luo's cousin, the niece of the current queen mother, the side concubine Shen Changan, and a concubine Nanyan. Concubine Li was found by the Queen Mother for Chu Luo, and every time Chu Luo saw her, she always called her "cousin", which made her face blue and white for a while, which was not a good taste. Concubine Nanyan used to be Chu Luo's maidservant, according to Chu Luo's words, she was drunk and disorderly one night and accidentally slept with her. originally covered people's eyes and ears to confuse the past, but coincidentally, Nanyan was pregnant. So I had to keep her as a concubine in the palace.

And one day later, Chu Luo met Shen Changan. Before her, he didn't have a life, and after meeting her, he had a life.