The emperor didn't fall asleep that night.

Today in the study of Changning Palace, he sent everyone out, and took off his shoes and stepped on the map with Lin Jiyun, Lin Jiyun pointed to the map and talked to him for a day, and his voice was hoarse.

He was so negligent at the time that he didn't even think to let people bring in some throat tea.

Of course, Xie Ning didn't know that what the little uncle and the emperor were talking about were not some customs or interesting conversations about what they saw and heard during the trip. The things he said Shainin probably couldn't even think of if he broke his head.

"Since the Battle of the Northwest in the second year of Yuanchang, Yuanhu was defeated. Yuanhu Lao Khan died of his injuries, and died in the second year of Yuanchang just after winter. Seven of his sons fought intermittently for the throne of Khan, three of whom were young and had been killed in fratricide. The eldest son of the old khan was killed by his strong generals, and the fourth son moved north with a group of men, while the second and third sons each occupied a piece of territory and established themselves as the new khan.

Yuan didn't know anything about this news.

"The locals call one of them the Shannan Khan and the other the Shanbei Khan, and there is a Yanying Mountain in Yuanhu between the two territories."

"The Yuanhu people live a very hard life, according to them, there is less and less pasture to graze than a few decades ago, the winters are getting colder, and a large number of livestock and people die every winter. They plundered again and again, but they could only quench their hunger and thirst for a while, and they would one day move south, wielding their swords to harvest the crops and wealth of the Central Plains. ”

When he thought of this, it was as if there was a sharp sword hanging above his head, and the emperor couldn't close his eyes.

Xie Ning was already asleep, and she often curled up her legs when she slept, and her whole body was about to shrink into a ball. The emperor had discovered this before, and at first he thought that Xie Ning was not feeling cold, the quilt was not warm enough, or the earth dragon was not burning. Later he found out that it was not those reasons.

Shainin may be uneasy, even in a dream.

She was probably still scared. After so many things, even the emperor would be shocked when he thought about it, let alone Xie Ning.

At this moment, I suddenly felt that the two of them were in sympathy for each other.

External troubles are eyeing each other, and internal worries are intertwined. Although the emperor is the Son of Heaven, he can't do whatever he wants.

Xie Ning's matter made him see clearly those who had always been ambitious in the court and the palace, and Lin Jiyun's arrival told him that Yuan Hu, who was thousands of miles away, was sharpening his sword and Huo Huo's soldiers.

The second prince should have woken up, and the emperor heard the faint sound of a baby.

He couldn't sleep anyway, so he simply got up and put on his shoes to see the second prince.

The palace people standing in front of the door and the little eunuch guarding the door all knelt down, and the nurse breastfed the second prince, and hurriedly saluted when the emperor came in.

"Is he asleep?"

"Back to the emperor, not yet."

The emperor stretched out his hand, and the nurse hurriedly handed the second prince to him.

The second prince slept for a while, ate his little belly, and had just changed his diaper, and now it was the best time for him to be in good spirits, looking at the person holding him with big bony eyes.

When the emperor looked at him, he only felt that his heart was about to melt.

This is his son.

The second prince is the same day and grows every day. This kind of growth made the emperor feel happy and awe.

This is how everyone is born and raised, including him. Everyone has to experience birth, old age, sickness and death, and he knows that he will lie in the imperial tomb one day, but it doesn't matter, he has a son, his surname, his bloodline, and his country will continue to continue.

Speaking of others, others may not believe it, the emperor has been on the throne for eight years, but before the second prince was born, only three children were born in the palace, two were still sick and half-dead and relied on medicine, and only one Princess Yuyao was in good health.

Is it the problem of those women, or is it the problem of the emperor himself?

The emperor sat in front of the window with the second prince in his arms, and it was not until the second prince fell asleep that he returned the child to the nurse.

It's almost dawn.

When the emperor walked out of the palace gate in his clothes, the eastern sky was gray and a little white.

This palace is still sleeping, with heavy palaces and portals. The people who live in this palace city are still asleep and have not woken up.

The chill came up from the soles of the feet, the breeze carried the dampness, the night dew was heavy, and the clothes were all splashed with a layer of dampness.

It's like ...... He was the only one in the world who was awake, unprecedentedly sober.

This world of internal and external troubles.

The day of the enthronement is still vivid, as clear as what happened yesterday. When he closed his eyes, it was as if he could still hear the drums of that day. At that time, he was so high-spirited that he thought that he had become the lord of this country.

But later, slowly, day by day, he understood that this country was a heavy burden on his shoulders, and every step had to be thought about before and after, and every step was full of dangers. For a while, he really understood why his father would act so perversely. Such days are one day, two days, a year, two years, repeated, repeated, sometimes the emperor listens to those people fighting against each other when he is in the court, holding the banner of morality and righteousness and doing invisible people's deeds, and he also wants to set up a case countless times, so that people drag them all out and beat them to death directly.

But he still had to be patient.

The emperor is a lonely man, from the time he ascended to the throne, his joys, sorrows and sorrows have no one to share, no one can tell what is in his heart, and he can't really and completely trust everyone around him.

He began to miss the things before he ascended the throne, he studied with a group of children of the sub-clan, and the study was hot in the hottest time in the summer, so they quietly slipped out and played a horseback battle behind the Changming Palace, he fought to be a general every time, because the general was the freest, and he could run wherever he wanted. The bare skin exposed by the sun is hot, and when I lie down at night, I feel hot, and I don't dare to say it when I know it's sunburned, for fear that the queen mother will scold.

But the past will never come back.

The emperor heard the sound of small footsteps behind him, Xie Ning rubbed his eyes and came out of the hall, wearing a long robe and a thick cloak in his hand.

"It's not dawn yet, why does the emperor get up so early?" She yawned and said, "The wind is cold and the dew is heavy, and I don't add more clothes, what should I do if I catch a cold?" ”

The emperor took her outstretched hand. She had probably just gotten up from the soft bed, her hands warm and soft, and her body had a warm fragrance.

"Why did you wake up?"

Xie Ning put the cloak on him, stood on tiptoe and fastened the lacing: "The concubine slept for a while yesterday afternoon, and woke up just now, why is the emperor standing here?" ”

"I went to see the second prince and came out to breathe."

Xie Ning could see that the emperor had something on his mind. But the emperor's heart must be a national matter, tell her, she probably doesn't know the trick very well, and there is no way to share the emperor's worries.

"It's getting dawn."

The emperor held her hand and stood on the stone steps in front of the palace gate, nodded and said, "Yes, the sky is about to dawn." ”

Then they didn't say anything, but stood there quietly watching, as the eastern sky grew brighter and brighter, and the gray and white gradually turned into a warm orange, and the sun rose like a duck's egg yolk.

The emperor was full of emotion in his heart, but when he saw Xie Ning's expression, he knew that she was not the same thing as what he thought.

"What's wrong?"

Xie Ning said with some regret: "I haven't eaten salted duck eggs for a long time, and my aunt and Fang Shanggong won't give me them." She likes to use salted duck eggs for porridge, especially the egg whites that she doesn't usually like to eat, which are especially delicious when soaked in porridge.

The emperor took a deep breath, felt that the topic was still a little crooked, and let out a long breath, and then turned his heart of worrying about the country and the people to the salted duck eggs.

As the emperor, a trivial request to the concubine should be generous and generous to the word "quasi". But there are still a few days left in this month, and the emperor can only say heroically short-breathed: "Endure it for a few more days, and let you eat enough after the full moon banquet." ”

Although the emperor also felt that eating two salted duck eggs would not eat people badly, since Mrs. Fang Shanggong Lin couldn't say it in unison, there must be a reason for them.

The nurse of the full moon banquet will take the second prince to the Qianqiu Palace, but it is a big banquet for entertaining the clansmen and courtiers, and Xie Ning can't go to the Qianqiu Palace. On the day of the full moon banquet, she had to change into auspicious clothes to receive the will of promotion and canonization. It is said that after receiving the order, he will go to thank him, but the emperor has already said that he will save this way. There is no queen in the palace, and there is no need to visit the queen to listen to the admonition.

However, after receiving the order, there will definitely be people in the six palaces in the east and west to congratulate him, and by the way, he will celebrate the full moon for the second prince in Yong'an Palace.

Xie Ning got up early this morning, and she finally took a beautiful medicated bath, feeling that the plaster she rubbed off could make a clay figure as big as her again. After washing, my whole body was very relaxed, and I really felt like I had relived. After drying your hair, it's time to put on makeup and change clothes.

It was the first time for Xie Ning to wear such a formal auspicious dress, and Luo Shanggong also came to help, she was an expert in these things. In the past few days, she also came over every day to instruct Shainin on how to bow down, how to thank him, how to receive the order, and so on. Actually, to put it bluntly, it's very simple. Xie Ning knelt down in front of the main hall, and the people from the inner palace eunuch came to announce the decree, and at the end Xie Ning said that he would receive the decree and thank him.

If it weren't for such an insider, it would be really difficult to put on this full set of auspicious clothes.

Xie Ning stood in front of the bronze mirror and looked at the figure reflected in the mirror, and couldn't believe that it was him.

Jifu is like a shell, she is packed into this shell, with butterfly eyebrows and red lips, looking like a person in a painting, painting the concubine of the previous dynasty.

She should not be the first to accept the canonization in Yong'an Palace, and probably not the last. A generation of new people replaced the old, only Yong'an Palace has not changed.

Maybe in a few years, there will be people like her who will wear auspicious clothes and take self-portraits in the mirror here.

Xie Ning didn't know why, and suddenly remembered that the emperor was standing alone outside the palace gate that morning.

What was the emperor thinking at that time? Will she have the same emotions as she does now?

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If you are not in a good state today, you can only change it, and you will add it tomorrow.

Friends in the group will definitely say that the stupid song is broken and fat, and it will be said in the group in the afternoon that they will be double-watched. But the state is really too bad, and the writing is not smooth. Yesterday I woke up with a nightmare, my eyelids jumped non-stop, and my mood was also very bad, I haven't had this kind of nightmare for a long time, well, the stupid author is too fragile to even be scared by a dream. But my friend said that timid people are actually very good, they know how to fear and know how to cherish.